Global Budgets for Rural Hospitals

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Discusses the financial and budgetary challenges faced by rural hospitals, explains how some rural hospitals have responded, and presents the case for using global budgets as an alternative payment model. Includes information on some of the proposed policy solutions such as Maryland's all-payer system and the Save Rural Hospitals Act.

Joshua M. Sharfstein

The Milbank Quarterly, 94(2), 255-259

06/2016

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Healthcare business and finance · Hospitals · Policy · Reimbursement and payment models · Maryland