"Primary responsibility for preparing this report was assigned to the Health Care financing Administration (HCFA), and Office of Research and Demonstrations (ORD) ... The report was prepared in the Office of Research (OR) ... William J. Sobaski, Director of the Division of Reimbursement and Economic Studies (DRES), OR, served as the Project Director. Philip Cotterill, Ph.D., and Joel Bobula, both of DRES, OR, assisted him ... Most of the original research performed for this report was conducted through the Brandeis University Health Policy Center directed by Stanley Wallack, Ph.D. ... [and assisted by personnel from Health Systems Research, Inc., the Urban Institute and Georgetown University]"--Page iii.

"January 1987."

Includes bibliographical references.

Photocopy. [Baltimore, Maryland?] : Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, [2002]. 28 cm.

CMS copy in folder: Relationship of Medicare PPS to all payer systems and cost-shifting / Report to Congress / January 1987.