Hospital Cost Containment Act of 1979: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session on S. 570 ... March 9 and 15, 1979U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979 - 817 pages |
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accounting period ACPPD administration Administration's admission AFL-CIO American Hospital Association annual bill billion budget Chairman Committee community hospitals competition CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Consumer Price Index Cost Containment Act cost containment programs cost increases cost of hospital cost per patient dollars earnings economy effective efficiency exempt Feldstein goal going guidelines Havighurst health care health care costs health planning Hospital Cost Containment hospital expenditures hospital industry hospital services hospital's impact incentives increase in hospital Indiana program individual hospitals inflation inpatient labor legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS mandatory controls mandatory limit mandatory program market basket Martin Feldstein Medicaid Medicare Medicare and Medicaid patient day payments physicians President private sector problem proposed rate of increase reduce regulation regulatory reimbursement revenues rise in hospital Secretary CALIFANO Senator KENNEDY Senator SCHWEIKER Subcommittee on Health tion total hospital Voluntary Effort
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Page 324 - It would be generally acceptable. An MRI scheme should be acceptable to physicians, hospitals, and the general public. It would have the virtue of providing full protection against serious financial hardship without the controls or fee schedules that would accompany other forms of insurance. The current freedom of physicians and hospitals would be preserved. If MRI were administered by the same insurance companies that currently provide health insurance, the net effect would be a small increase in...
Page 288 - DOD, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Office of Management and Budget...
Page 42 - Council shall each be entitled to receive the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay in effect for grade GS-18 of the General Schedule for each day (including travel time) during which they are engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the Council.
Page 76 - December 1977, the American Hospital Association, the Federation of American Hospitals and the American Medical Association announced the formation of a Voluntary Effort by the industry to curtail spiraling hospital costs. the group established voluntary goals: • two percentage points deceleration in the rate of increase...
Page 398 - ... affluence of the American people. Too much of the current debate relies on ideas about the delivery of medical care that have been inherited from a period with quite different technological and economic conditions. The challenge today is to find new methods of financing health care that protect families from financial hardship, while also making future health care more responsive to the preferences of the people.
Page 136 - STATEMENT OF THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES ON THE HOSPITAL COST CONTAINMENT ACT OF 1979 S.570 March 9, 1979 Mr.
Page 303 - In addition to providing protection against unforeseen medical expenses, health insurance substantially lowers the net price of care that the patient pays out-of-pocket at the time he consumes services. There is now substantial evidence that patients, guided by their doctors, demand more services and more expensive services when a large part of the cost is offset by insurance. Some simple but striking numbers will illustrate this point.
Page 415 - Judiciary and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
Page 317 - solutions" will only take us down a wrong road. Direct regulation of hospital costs One such proposed "solution" is the direct regulation of hospital costs. At first glance it seems natural to apply the mechanism of public-utility regulation to hospitals. However, a more detailed examination of this proposal shows that controlling hospital costs differs fundamentally from public-utility regulation. And more important, the direct regulation of hospital costs would in the long run make the nature and...
Page 396 - The answer in brief is that the current type of costly medical care does not really correspond to what consumers or their physicians would regard as appropriate if their choices were not distorted by insurance. The effect of prepaying health care through insurance, both private and public, is to encourage hospitals to provide a more expensive product than the consumers actually wish to pay for.