Product Description: This report describes the research that Rand performed to support the efforts of the Health Care Financing Adinnistration to design, develop, and implement a Prospective Payment System.

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Product Description: The study contributes to payment policy development by evaluating capitation as an alternative payment method to control Medicare costs while maintaining access and quality of care for ESRD patients.

Product Description: The authors of this study provide evidence suggesting that classification error and subsidies of higher weighted cases by lower weighted cases caused compression in the weights used for payment as late as the fifth year of Medicare's prospective payment system.

Product Description: Building Organizational Decision Support Systems is written by four leaders in the information and operations research fields and provides step-by-step guidance to building an ODSS (Organizational Decision Support System), an interactive, computer-based system that helps decision makers utilize data and mathematical models in making decisions...read more

Product Description: Book by Carter, Grace M., Newhouse, Joseph P., Relles, Daniel A.

Product Description: This volume focuses on analytic methods as alternatives to traditional public policy decision-making methods. Covers a broad spectrum of analytic aids to decision making; focuses on the needs of the users rather than the interests of analysts; demonstrates that analysis is not limited to questions that can be quantified; and provides information -- both practical and theoretical -- on questions that are important to those who need analytical help and to those responsible for sponsoring, evaluating, and implementing the analyses of others...read more