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inlawrev-2680	Kinney, Eleanor D.	Making Hard Choices Under the Medicare Prospective Payment System: One Administrative Model for Allocating Medical Resources Under a Government Health Insurance Program	1986	48	.pdf	application/pdf	22092	1009	49	Eventually, the Office of Management and Budget prevailed in the internicine debate, and the final rule updated fiscal year 1987 payment rates 0.5%.'^« In the context of setting the federal budget, Congress has taken an extraordinarily active role in updating hospital payment rates and thus in making allocation decisions as to how much federal resources should be devoted to hospital care for Medicare beneficiaries. MEDICARE PROSPECTIVE PA YMENT 1181 beneficiaries to challenge the composition of DRG's is specifically pre- cluded by statute, '^^ thus effectively inhibiting the ability of individual beneficiaries and hospitals to challenge effectively the allocation of resources to Medicare hospital services at the societal level.	cache/inlawrev-2680.pdf	txt/inlawrev-2680.txt