Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM): Impact on Hospitals

The financial impact of prospective payment on hospitals.

Impact of the Medicare prospective payment system for hospitals

This article describes some of the available evidence on the impact of the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for hospitals during its first year, on hospitals, other payers for inpatient hospital services, other providers of health care, and Medicare beneficiaries. In addition, because the impetus for the enactment of the new system stemmed from concern over the financial status of the ...

Long-term impact of medicare payment reductions on patient outcomes.

OBJECTIVE To examine the long-term impact of Medicare payment reductions on patient outcomes for Medicare acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients. DATA SOURCES Analysis of secondary data compiled from 100 percent Medicare Provider Analysis and Review between 1995 and 2005, Medicare hospital cost reports, Inpatient Prospective Payment System Payment Impact Files, American Hospital Associati...

Policy-Driven Process Mapping (PDPM): Towards Process Design Automation

Recently, many organizations are investing a great amount to revamp their business policies in order to comply with the new regulations related to Sarbanes-Oxley. For organizations with large-scale business processes, maintaining those processes to meet the changing policies is a non-trivial problem. In this paper, we present an innovative process mapping methodology named Policy-Driven Process...

Impact of Model-Driven Standards

The Object Management GroupTM (the consortium that issues the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA®) and Unified Modeling LanguageTM standards) is making the transition from a standards architecture in which only interface definitions are normative to one in which the model is the primary normative artifact. This paper discusses the impact of this move for standards-based interopera...