The impact of prospective pricing on hospital health education: The new jersey experience
โ Scribed by Helene Weinraub
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 441 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0738-3991
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โฆ Synopsis
Educators
are concerned that the cost consciousness arena of prospective payment systems will cause cutbacks in hospital consumer education programs. This paper examines how DRGs, the New Jersey prospective pricing system, has affected patient education at New Jersey hospitals.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
The ways in which health care is paid for by third-party payers is beginning to change dramatically. Hospitals receiving Medicare funds now have to function under a new pricing system that allocates specific amounts of money for specific diagnosis related groups (DRGs). It is likely that the major h
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