Medicare-medicaid Administrative and Reimbursement Reform Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, on S. 1470 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - 638 pages |
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... costs of these programs continually outstrip the rate of rise in Federal revenue . The choice is a simple one ... hospital cost containment proposal . While that bill must ultimately come before this committee , it is currently being ...
... costs of these programs continually outstrip the rate of rise in Federal revenue . The choice is a simple one ... hospital cost containment proposal . While that bill must ultimately come before this committee , it is currently being ...
Page 72
... hospital costs and does not apply to other hospital costs . The reason for this limited initial approach is simple . We did not believe that we had the expertise to make reasonable comparisons of costs other than adjusted routine at the ...
... hospital costs and does not apply to other hospital costs . The reason for this limited initial approach is simple . We did not believe that we had the expertise to make reasonable comparisons of costs other than adjusted routine at the ...
Page 73
... hospital costs rather than the actual difference between the penalties and the incentive payments . Some have ... costs to levels which are fully reimbursed . Other hospitals will act to moderate their costs so as to gain incentive ...
... hospital costs rather than the actual difference between the penalties and the incentive payments . Some have ... costs to levels which are fully reimbursed . Other hospitals will act to moderate their costs so as to gain incentive ...
Page 80
... hospital industry , which constitutes 40 percent of health care costs . If we take no action now , total health expenditures will double between 1975 and 1980 ; hospital costs paid by medicare and medicaid will double even sooner ; total ...
... hospital industry , which constitutes 40 percent of health care costs . If we take no action now , total health expenditures will double between 1975 and 1980 ; hospital costs paid by medicare and medicaid will double even sooner ; total ...
Page 81
... hospitals must be shifted from retrospec- tive to prospective ; prospective limits on hospital costs should be based on different types of hospitals ; and these limits should encourage efficiency and penalize inefficiency . These ...
... hospitals must be shifted from retrospec- tive to prospective ; prospective limits on hospital costs should be based on different types of hospitals ; and these limits should encourage efficiency and penalize inefficiency . These ...
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| Title | Medicare-medicaid Administrative and Reimbursement Reform Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, on S. 1470 ... |
| Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Health |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 638 pages |
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