An Analysis of the Effects of Prospective Reimbursement Programs On Hospital Expenditures

  • 1 January 1981
    • journal article
    • Vol. 2  (3) , 1-40
Abstract
Prospective reimbursement (PR) programs attempt to restrain increases in hospital expenditures by establishing, in advance of a hospital's fiscal year, limits on the reimbursement the hospital will receive for the services it provides to patients. We used data compiled from a sample of approximately 2700 community hospitals in the U.S. for each year from 1969 to 1978 to estimate the effects of prospective reimbursement programs on hospital expenditures per patient day, per admission, and, to a lesser extent, per capita.

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