Comments on HCFA Regional Office Report on New Jersey's Diagnostic Related Group Prospective Reimbursement Experiment

HRD-83-63 Published: Jun 15, 1983. Publicly Released: Jul 12, 1983.

Highlights

GAO was asked to review a report by the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) New York Regional Office on New Jersey's Diagnostic Related Group hospital prospective payment experiment and to assess the relevance of its findings and recommendations to the administration's proposed Medicare hospital prospective payment system.

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