Add to ORKGThis Article will first examine the problem of health care cost inflation and the payment strategies the Medicare program has adopted to address that problem. It will then discuss the perverse incentives that these payment strategies create, and the role of the PRO program in addressing harmful provider behavior encouraged by those perverse incentives. The Article examines evidence on whether the PRO program is succeeding or failing in this mission, and suggests possible means of improving the effectiveness of the PRO program in policing cost containment. Specifically, it recommends clarifying and strengthening the deterrent role of the PROs, crafting PRO procedures to maximize PRO effectiveness, and networking between PROs and other regula...
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In 1991, total U.S. health expenditures reached $750 billion or over 11 percent of the Gross Nationa...
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In this article, Professor Orentlicher discusses the need for containing costs, as well as increasin...
The U.S. health care system during the past three decades has been over two interrelated questions: ...
It is not the purpose of this Article to reject all features of procompetitive proposals. Competitiv...
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.MI...
Consumers today rely on both physicians and the federal government for health care services. A consu...
The medical community argues that physician fear of legal liability increases health care spending. ...
With Medicare’s rising costs threatening the country’s fiscal health, policymakers have focused thei...
The United States spends nearly twice as much on health care as a share of its economy than the aver...
In this article, Professor Orentlicher explores the high cost of healthcare and the trend in health ...
The purpose of this article is to describe Medicaid\u27s financial structure and examine cost contai...
Our excess health care spending in the United States is driven largely by our high health care price...
The article focuses on the lack of provisions of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...
This article addresses two components of the new governing architecture (NGA) that help to reform th...
In 1991, total U.S. health expenditures reached $750 billion or over 11 percent of the Gross Nationa...
The article reports on the standards of Mayo Clinic to achieve high-value health care which include ...
In this article, Professor Orentlicher discusses the need for containing costs, as well as increasin...
The U.S. health care system during the past three decades has been over two interrelated questions: ...
It is not the purpose of this Article to reject all features of procompetitive proposals. Competitiv...
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.MI...
Consumers today rely on both physicians and the federal government for health care services. A consu...
The medical community argues that physician fear of legal liability increases health care spending. ...
With Medicare’s rising costs threatening the country’s fiscal health, policymakers have focused thei...
The United States spends nearly twice as much on health care as a share of its economy than the aver...
In this article, Professor Orentlicher explores the high cost of healthcare and the trend in health ...
The purpose of this article is to describe Medicaid\u27s financial structure and examine cost contai...
Our excess health care spending in the United States is driven largely by our high health care price...
The article focuses on the lack of provisions of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...
This article addresses two components of the new governing architecture (NGA) that help to reform th...
In 1991, total U.S. health expenditures reached $750 billion or over 11 percent of the Gross Nationa...