Medicare: Ownership Status of Inpatient Prospective Payment System Hospitals That Qualify for Payment Adjustments

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Title

Main Title Medicare: Ownership Status of Inpatient Prospective Payment System Hospitals That Qualify for Payment Adjustments

Creator

Author: United States. Government Accountability Office.

Creator Type: Organization

Publisher

Name: United States. Government Accountability Office.

Place of Publication: Washington D.C.

Date

Creation: 2013-06-27

Language

English

Description

Content Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO previously reported that, in 2012, upward payment adjustments affected the vast majority of hospitals paid under Medicare's inpatient prospective system (IPPS). (See GAO-13-334). For this report, GAO found that, of the 3,455 IPPS hospitals in the prior review, the proportion of hospitals qualifying for at least one of four categories of payment adjustments was higher among nonprofit and government hospitals than among for-profit hospitals. On average, 97 percent of government-owned hospitals and 90 percent of nonprofit hospitals received at least one form of increased payment in 2012. In contrast, 80 percent of for-profit hospitals qualified for at least one category of payment adjustment that year. In addition, for-profit hospitals were more likely to receive no, or only one form of, additional payment, whereas government-owned and nonprofit hospitals were more likely to receive two or three forms of additional payment."

Subject

Library of Congress Subject Headings: Government accountability -- United States.
Keyword: health care
Keyword: auditing and financial management
Keyword: medicare
Keyword: correspondence

Coverage

Place Name: United States

Collection

Name: Government Accountability Office Reports

Code: GAORT

Institution

Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Code: UNTGD

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Rights License: pd

Resource Type

Text

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Text

Identifier

Report No.: GAO-13-667R
Accession or Local Control No: 655588
URL: http://gao.gov/products/GAO-13-667R
Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc296591