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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Mr. Chairman , there is another problem identified in the proposed legislation that the administration views as being of the greatest urgency — the methods by which hospitals are reimbursed for services provided to medicare and medicaid ...
Mr. Chairman , there is another problem identified in the proposed legislation that the administration views as being of the greatest urgency — the methods by which hospitals are reimbursed for services provided to medicare and medicaid ...
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As noted , we feel strongly that the problem of rising costs is of such disastrous proportions that we simply cannot wait for a perfect solution before acting . It is important , however , to provide for an orderly evolution .
As noted , we feel strongly that the problem of rising costs is of such disastrous proportions that we simply cannot wait for a perfect solution before acting . It is important , however , to provide for an orderly evolution .
Page 90
One of the first things I did after I became Secretary of HEW was to ask the Comptroller General to come over with his top people to examine HEW , and I spent hours with him and found out all of the problems that they felt were there ...
One of the first things I did after I became Secretary of HEW was to ask the Comptroller General to come over with his top people to examine HEW , and I spent hours with him and found out all of the problems that they felt were there ...
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Our basic justification - we looked at the problem and there are several kinds of problems . One is to try to get lower paid workers to stick for longer periods on the job . Second , to try and get them a little better trained .
Our basic justification - we looked at the problem and there are several kinds of problems . One is to try to get lower paid workers to stick for longer periods on the job . Second , to try and get them a little better trained .
Page 102
Second , the energy cost piece of this will eventually have to be related to the energy legislation that is working its way through the Congress , in which there is provision to ease this problem to some degree with respect to hospitals ...
Second , the energy cost piece of this will eventually have to be related to the energy legislation that is working its way through the Congress , in which there is provision to ease this problem to some degree with respect to hospitals ...
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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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