Abstract
The healthcare industry has recently experienced an onslaught of pressures to reduce costs, a demand fueled by a host of factors shaping and changing the current healthcare market. These familiar factors include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Increased managed care discounting
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Tightened government reimbursements as a result of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997
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Losses on bad physician and HMO investments
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The 1983 inpatient hospital prospective payment system and the corresponding change from reasonable cost reimbursement for inpatient hospital care
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Audits that introduced a wave of scrutiny into billing and coding practices in the Medicare system
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Kindred, C., Pratt, D., Miller, K. (2001). Cost Containment: A New Approach and a VA Case Study. In: Ramsaroop, P., Ball, M.J., Beaulieu, D., Douglas, J.V. (eds) Advancing Federal Sector Health Care. Health Informatics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3439-3_13
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