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New Hampshire's new payment system for hospital psychiatric services is described. The system puts into practice arguments that incentives to reduce levels of care in a pure prospective payment system should be weakened and that “experience rating” should be used to ensure more fair payment to providers. This paper describes the system and summarizes the arguments.
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William S. Mosakowski is with the Public Consulting Group
Support for this research was provided by the New England Mental Health Commissioners' Association (NEMHCA), and grant number 1K05MH-00832-01 from the National Institute of Mental Health.
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McGuire, T.G., Mosakowski, W.S. & Radigan, L.S. Designing a state-level prospective payment system for inpatient psychiatric services in medicaid. Adm Policy Ment Health 18, 43–54 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00706491
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