Health Care Management Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Health Care Management Act - Defines the terms used in this Act. Title I: Prospective Payments to Hospitals - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to develop and make available to hospitals one or more methods of obtaining payment on a prospective basis for services provided under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act. States that hospitals will have the option of electing either one of such prospective payment methods, or as an alternative, the retrospective cost method of payment for services defined in the Social Security Act. Provides that prospective payment methods authorized under this title shall include in their design provisions: (1) for financial incentives for efficiency and effectiveness of hospital operations; (2) which provide for equity between various payor groups; (3) to assure the substantial participation by hospitals in such prospective payment methods; (4) to assure the availability of hospital services of high quality to beneficiaries and recipients under titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act; and (5) for maintaining independent management discretion and responsibility in such hospitals. Requires th…