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  • Title: Achieving short-term Medicare savings through the expansion of the prospective payment system.
    Author: Averill RF, Kalison MJ, Vertrees JC, Goldfield NI.
    Journal: Health Care Manage Rev; 1996; 21(4):18-25. PubMed ID: 8922961.
    Abstract:
    This article addresses the introduction of competition into the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS), the application of aa expanded PPS to ensure that Medicare is not paying more than the market price for comparable services, the expansion of the Medicare PPS to outpatient services, and the expansion of the Medicare PPS to physician fees for inpatient care.
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