Cost Efficiency of Critical Access Hospitals

摘要: Relying heavily on Medicare reimbursement, small rural hospitals have been largely affected by the payment policies. has most important source of revenue for because communities a relatively higher proportion elderly compared to urban areas. Prior 1983, reimbursed according actual costs incurred in providing services beneficiaries. This cost-based reimbursement gave little incentives control their and encouraged both excessive inefficiently produced (Gianfrancesco 1990). In replaced with prospective system