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Effects of Competition under Prospective Payment on Hospital Costs among High and Low Cost Admissions: Evidence from California, 1983 - 1993 [PDF]
Competition and prospective payment systems have been widely used to attempt to control health care costs. Though much of the increase in medical costs over the past half-century has been concentrated among a few high-cost users of health care ...
David Meltzer, Jeanette Chung
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Blood‐based liquid biopsies hold transformative potential for non‐invasive cancer management, but current approaches relying on rare circulating tumor components limit their broad clinical utility. Platelets, abundant in blood and mediating diverse cancer‐associated responses, represent a compelling yet largely unexplored alternative.
Yan Ma +28 more
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A Case-Mix System for Children and Youth With Developmental Disabilities
Health Services Insights, 2020 Limited funding across health and social service programs presents a challenge regarding how to best match resources to the needs of the population. There is increasing consensus that differences in individual characteristics and care needs should be ...
Shannon L Stewart +5 more
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Prospective payment system : consequences for hospital-physician interactions in the private sector [PDF]
In 2004, French health authorities plan to introduce a prospective payment system for hospitals delivering acute care based on the DRG classification system.
Ana, MAULEON +2 more
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Selenium‐Based Nanoplatforms: An Emerging Theranostic Paradigm for Gynecological Cancers
Advanced Science, EarlyView.This reivew summarizes Selenium as a multifunctional anticancer regulator in gynecological cancers. It reduces tumor risk, enhances therapeutic efficacy, and reduces treatment toxicity. Selenium also overcomes chemoraditherapy resistance, improving overall treatment outcomes. ABSTRACT Gynecological cancers present significant therapeutic challenges due
Hejing Liu +9 more
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The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and U.S. Hospital Operations
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2004 The Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 initiated several changes to Medicare payment policy in an effort to slow the growth of hospital Medicare payments and ensure the future of the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund.
Gloria J. Bazzoli +3 more
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Cost Impact of Medicare OASIS Outcome Measurement for Rural Home Health Agencies
Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 2012 Many home health agencies (HHA) are in small towns located in rural areas. Due to volume restraints, a rural home health agency desiring to excel financially must endeavor to understand OASIS (the Outcome and Assessment Information Set).
Melondie Reeves Carter
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Groping for Autonomy: The Federal Government and American Hospitals [PDF]
, 1999 This article chronicles the slow but steady emergence of countervailing power in the hospital industry since mid-century. The transformation of American health care policymaking reflects the federal government\u27s growing fiscal obligations as the ...
Hackey, Robert B.
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Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
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Does prospective payment increase hospital (in)efficiency? Evidence from the Swiss hospital sector [PDF]
Several European countries have followed the United States in introducing prospective payment for hospitals with the expectation of achieving cost efficiency gains.
Philippe K. Widmer
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