Scibetta L P
Pathologist. 1983 Aug;37(8):552-5.
In light of growing public concern about rising health care costs, government is seeking ways to reduce expenditures while maintaining the accessibility and quality of health care for Americans. Prospective payment and competition are two proposed mechanisms for achieving reduced costs; both impact on hospitals and pathologists. Hospitals and pathologists share a number of common interests including the same market, patients, physicians as colleagues, and the desire to provide quality care and have less government intervention. They clearly must work together to assure the survival of the health care system as it is today. This article, first presented at the American Pathology Foundation last year, describes, from a hospital administrator's perspective, an experimental reimbursement system used in New Jersey.
鉴于公众对医疗保健成本不断上涨的担忧日益加剧，政府正在寻求在维持美国人可获得医疗保健的机会和质量的同时降低支出的方法。预期支付和竞争是两种为降低成本而提出的机制；它们都对医院和病理学家产生影响。医院和病理学家有许多共同利益，包括相同的市场、患者、作为同事的医生，以及提供优质护理和减少政府干预的愿望。显然，他们必须共同努力以确保当今医疗保健系统的生存。本文去年首次在美国病理学基金会发表，从医院管理人员的角度描述了新泽西州使用的一种实验性报销系统。
