Medicare-Medicaid Administrative and Reimbursement Reform: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. 3205 ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 604 pages |
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... result in hos- pitals shifting costs internally or raising their charges to nonmedi- care - medicaid patients the result being no change in overall hospital costs . In fact , because of the noninclusive definition of routine costs ...
... result in hos- pitals shifting costs internally or raising their charges to nonmedi- care - medicaid patients the result being no change in overall hospital costs . In fact , because of the noninclusive definition of routine costs ...
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... result of State budgetary difficul- ties . Second , since there is nothing sacrosanct about medicare reim- bursement rates , there is no way to know at what " appropriate " level to set the medicaid reimbursement rates . Sections 2 and ...
... result of State budgetary difficul- ties . Second , since there is nothing sacrosanct about medicare reim- bursement rates , there is no way to know at what " appropriate " level to set the medicaid reimbursement rates . Sections 2 and ...
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... result of these investigations we have secured the repayment of approximately $ 30,000,000 . As Senator Packwood pointed out , these end results seem very small in view of the amount of effort expended , but we believe that the ...
... result of these investigations we have secured the repayment of approximately $ 30,000,000 . As Senator Packwood pointed out , these end results seem very small in view of the amount of effort expended , but we believe that the ...
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... on a percentage of the gross charges of a radiology department or pathology department is simply , in my opinion , not realistic and does result in inflated costs , inflated bills . Senator TALMADGE . As you know , we have had 42.
... on a percentage of the gross charges of a radiology department or pathology department is simply , in my opinion , not realistic and does result in inflated costs , inflated bills . Senator TALMADGE . As you know , we have had 42.
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... result is that we really cannot tell the medicare beneficiary at a given time what the program will pay . We really can't even tell a doctor what the program will pay . It has to come out of this massive computerized operation , and I ...
... result is that we really cannot tell the medicare beneficiary at a given time what the program will pay . We really can't even tell a doctor what the program will pay . It has to come out of this massive computerized operation , and I ...
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Page 155 - For purposes of the preceding provisions of this paragraph, the term routine services" shall mean the regular room, dietary, and nursing services, minor medical and surgical supplies and the use of equipment and facilities for which a separate charge is not customarily made; the term "ancillary services" shall mean those special services for which charges are customarily made in addition to routine services.
Page 264 - Any employee who believes that he has been discharged or otherwise discriminated against by any person in violation of this subsection may, within thirty days after such violation occurs, file a complaint with the Secretary alleging such discrimination.
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Page 17 - 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 5 - Commission shall transmit to the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives an exact copy of its report and recommendations to the President.
Page 534 - Post-Hospital Extended Care Services (i) The term "post-hospital extended care services" means extended care services furnished an individual after transfer from a hospital in which he was an inpatient for not less than 3 consecutive days before his discharge from the hospital in connection with such transfer. For purposes of the preceding sentence, items and services shall be deemed to have been furnished to an individual after transfer from a hospital, and he shall...
Page 249 - Appropriations Committees, the Senate Finance Committee, and the House Ways and Means Committee; and all other congressional committees.
Page 134 - OF FEDERATION OF AMERICAN HOSPITALS On behalf of the members of the Federation of American Hospitals, we would like to thank the Committee for this opportunity to present the views of our organization on national health insurance.
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Page 317 - That must always rest upon some difference which bears a reasonable and just relation to the act in respect to which the classification is proposed, and can never be made arbitrarily and without any such basis.