Katharine G. Bauer

• Cost containment under P.L. 93-641
• The arranged marriage of health planning and regulation for cost containment under P.L. 93-641
• Containing costs of health services through incentive reimbursement
• Improving the chances for health
• Improving the information for hospital rate setting
• Information avalilable for rate setting by the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission
• Linking health planning and regulation to increase cost effectiveness
• Some issues in the incentive reimbursement approach to cost containment
• The summary and recommendations from Improving the information for hospital rate setting