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Medicare Hospital Prospective Payment System: How DRG ...

The Social Security Amendments of 1983 mandated the PPS payment system for hospitals, effective in October of Fiscal Year 1983.12 The system was intended to motivate hospitals to change the way they deliver services. With DRGs, it did not matter what hospitals charged anymore -- Medicare capped their payments.

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