Raising prices to offset lower monies paid from Medicaid and Medicare is called:
a. price fixing. c. capitation.
b. cost shifting. d. cost containment.
B
The practice of raising prices for the privately insured to offset the lower health care payments
received from Medicare and Medicaid and nonpayment from the uninsured is called cost shifting
(shifting the cost for services from one payer to another).
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