National Health Insurance: Major Proposals : Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First [-second] Session ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 |
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Page 832
... indicates that PSRO's most effectively function as a quality assurance mechanism which can achieve cost savings through decreasing unnecessary or inappropriate services . PSRO's are voluntary organizations of physicians located within ...
... indicates that PSRO's most effectively function as a quality assurance mechanism which can achieve cost savings through decreasing unnecessary or inappropriate services . PSRO's are voluntary organizations of physicians located within ...
Page 834
... indicate that conditionally designated PSRO's have found evidence that where PSRO review is implemented , hospital lengths of stay are shorter than under previous conditions . For example , length of stay data available from four newly ...
... indicate that conditionally designated PSRO's have found evidence that where PSRO review is implemented , hospital lengths of stay are shorter than under previous conditions . For example , length of stay data available from four newly ...
Page 835
... indicated , it is difficult to measure im- provement in quality of care , but case studies , as described , suggest that MCE studies can have an impact on quality and may also lead to the development of other methodologies . I would ...
... indicated , it is difficult to measure im- provement in quality of care , but case studies , as described , suggest that MCE studies can have an impact on quality and may also lead to the development of other methodologies . I would ...
Page 839
... indicates an average cost in the neighborhood of $ 500 to $ 550,000 through a direct contract with HEW . From the experience of the 65 organizations which are now conducting reviews , we have been attempting to develop some overage ...
... indicates an average cost in the neighborhood of $ 500 to $ 550,000 through a direct contract with HEW . From the experience of the 65 organizations which are now conducting reviews , we have been attempting to develop some overage ...
Page 842
... indicated in the testimony , our experience to date is limited in that most of these organizations have only been ... indicating how it will , over the course of its first year , take on a responsibility for assuming review and at the ...
... indicated in the testimony , our experience to date is limited in that most of these organizations have only been ... indicating how it will , over the course of its first year , take on a responsibility for assuming review and at the ...
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administrative ambulatory American American Hospital Association areas audit average benefits bill billion Blue Cross budget carriers CARTER CFMC Chairman Rogers coinsurance Colorado committee concurrent review consumer copayments cost sharing coverage deductible developed dollars economic effective eligible employees estimates expenditures expenses FALK fee schedule financing fiscal funds going GORAN health insurance program health services hospital incentives income increase individual institutions legislation length of stay MAGUIRE mechanism medicaid medical audit medical staff Medicare medicare and medicaid ment national health insurance national health service nursing patient payment payroll tax peer review percent persons physicians poor population practitioners premium present private insurance problems professional proposal PSRO program PSRO review PSRO's quality assurance question reimbursement REINHARDT responsibility revenues SCHEUER sector Social Security Social Security Administration spending standards statement TERENZIO tion utilization review WAXMAN
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Page 947 - For every child a home and that love and security which a home provides; and for that child who must receive foster care, the nearest substitute for his own home IV For every child full preparation for his birth, his mother receiving prenatal, natal, and postnatal care; and the establishment of such protective measures as will make childbearing safer...
Page 851 - If my staff can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me Sincerely yours, THEODORE COOPER, MD, Assistant Secretary for Health.
Page 947 - For every child health protection from birth through adolescence, including: periodical health examinations and, where needed, care of specialists and hospital treatment; regular dental examinations and care of the teeth; protective and preventive measures against communicable diseases; the insuring of pure food, pure milk, and pure water VI.
Page 947 - For EVERY child these rights, regardless of race, or color, or situation, wherever he may live under the protection of the American flag.
Page 1467 - December 31, 1970, or (ii) the prevailing charge level that, on the basis of statistical data and methodology acceptable to the Secretary, would cover 75 percent of the customary charges made for similar services in the same locality during the last preceding calendar year elapsing prior to the start of the fiscal year in which the bill is submitted or the request for payment is made.
Page 1077 - 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.
Page 948 - Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina...
Page 954 - For every child from birth through adolescence, promotion of health, including health instruction and a health program, wholesome physical and mental recreation, with teachers and leaders adequately trained VII.
Page 874 - In 1951 the American College of Physicians, the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association, and the Canadian Medical Association (which withdrew in 1959 to participate in its own national hospital accreditation program) joined with the American College of Surgeons to form the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals.
Page 919 - OF MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH, SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Ms.