Does prospective payment reduce inpatien
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Edward C. Norton; Courtney Harold Van Houtven; Richard C. Lindrooth; Sharon-Lise
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A change in payment mechanism for inpatient care from per diem to per episode creates two incentives - a marginal and an average price effect - to change length of stay. The decrease in marginal price per day to zero should reduce the length of stay, while an increase in average price per inpatient