Constraining National Health Care Expenditures: Achieving Quality Care at an Affordable CostU.S. General Accounting Office, 1986 - 302 pages |
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... physicians and hospitals , encourage the development of medical technology , and expand care for the poor and elderly demonstrate this commitment . Innumerable benefits have resulted from the national priority given to health care ...
... physicians and hospitals , encourage the development of medical technology , and expand care for the poor and elderly demonstrate this commitment . Innumerable benefits have resulted from the national priority given to health care ...
Page iii
... physicians , and nursing homes . Overall , nearly 70 cents of each dollar spent for health care in 1984 went to these providers . Health resources issues Key health resources issues focus on the supply of hospital beds and the diffusion ...
... physicians , and nursing homes . Overall , nearly 70 cents of each dollar spent for health care in 1984 went to these providers . Health resources issues Key health resources issues focus on the supply of hospital beds and the diffusion ...
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... physicians have a disincentive to reduce the type and quantity of services provided . Also delivery of care in hospitals and nursing homes is expensive , and often alternative forms of care could be substituted . In addition , continued ...
... physicians have a disincentive to reduce the type and quantity of services provided . Also delivery of care in hospitals and nursing homes is expensive , and often alternative forms of care could be substituted . In addition , continued ...
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... physicians , and about 1.4 million persons residing in nursing homes . However , a substantial amount of such care has been found to be either medically unnecessary or inappropriate . For example , in 1984 , the Health Care Financing ...
... physicians , and about 1.4 million persons residing in nursing homes . However , a substantial amount of such care has been found to be either medically unnecessary or inappropriate . For example , in 1984 , the Health Care Financing ...
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... physician services have been implemented , and second surgical opinion programs have been tried . One option is to further increase consumer cost - consciousness by expanding cost - sharing provisions in health insurance plans . Another ...
... physician services have been implemented , and second surgical opinion programs have been tried . One option is to further increase consumer cost - consciousness by expanding cost - sharing provisions in health insurance plans . Another ...
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