Abstract

Ostensibly, the DRG prospective payment system represents a modern effort to legislate an enforceable system of just prices. As a practical matter, however, justice is conflated with mere familiarity, and the real goal of DRGs has always been cost containment. Abstract and concrete discussions of the computation of DRG payment schedules illustrate their actual operation. Keywords: DRG, cost containment, just price, Medicare CiteULike Connotea Del.icio.us What's this?