Hospitals Respond To Medicare Payment Shortfalls By Both Shifting Costs And Cutting Them, Based On Market Concentration
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Hospitals respond to Medicare payment shortfalls by both shifting costs and cutting them, based on market concentration.
The coverage expansions planned under the Affordable Care Act are to be financed in part by slowing Medicare payment updates to hospitals, thereby reigniting the debate over whether low prices paid by public payers cause hospitals to increase prices to private insurers--a practice known as cost shifting. Recently, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) proposed an alternative explana...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Affairs
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0278-2715,1544-5208
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0220