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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2220 21 " ( 3 ) Pathology services shall be considered ' physicians ' 22 services ' to patients only where the physician personally 23 performs acts or makes decisions with respect to a patient's 24 diagnosis or treatment which require ...
2220 21 " ( 3 ) Pathology services shall be considered ' physicians ' 22 services ' to patients only where the physician personally 23 performs acts or makes decisions with respect to a patient's 24 diagnosis or treatment which require ...
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Holding down medicare and medicaid payments alone could simply encourage hospitals to refuse these patients , to provide such patients with second - class care , or to transfer their costs to other payors .
Holding down medicare and medicaid payments alone could simply encourage hospitals to refuse these patients , to provide such patients with second - class care , or to transfer their costs to other payors .
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In fact , an independent study of a Massachusetts hospital , where 49 percent of open - heart surgery patients died during the period 1968-1975 - an ... cardiac care facilities , promote regionalization , and thus improve patient care .
In fact , an independent study of a Massachusetts hospital , where 49 percent of open - heart surgery patients died during the period 1968-1975 - an ... cardiac care facilities , promote regionalization , and thus improve patient care .
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Obviously a 200 bed short term general hospital with a large fraction of obstetrical patients will have different ... Unfortunately , we presently lack the methodology to classify hospitals by types of patient ( i.e. by the type of ...
Obviously a 200 bed short term general hospital with a large fraction of obstetrical patients will have different ... Unfortunately , we presently lack the methodology to classify hospitals by types of patient ( i.e. by the type of ...
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In such circumstances costs are shifted from payers who have imposed reimbursement constraints ( e.g. medicaid ) to other payers who do not or cannot control their level of reimburse- ment ( e.g. , private insurers and patients without ...
In such circumstances costs are shifted from payers who have imposed reimbursement constraints ( e.g. medicaid ) to other payers who do not or cannot control their level of reimburse- ment ( e.g. , private insurers and patients without ...
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