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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... an amount equal to the greater of : " ( I ) The hospital's actual routine operating costs , but not exceeding 120 percent of the hos- pital's adjusted per diem payment rate for routine operating costs , or " ( II ) the amounts ...
... an amount equal to the greater of : " ( I ) The hospital's actual routine operating costs , but not exceeding 120 percent of the hos- pital's adjusted per diem payment rate for routine operating costs , or " ( II ) the amounts ...
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( b ) A hospital which has actual routine operating costs greater than or equal to this rate would receive its actual costs , subject to a maximum of 120 percent of the greater of ( 1 ) the rate for its cell and ( 2 ) the rate for the ...
( b ) A hospital which has actual routine operating costs greater than or equal to this rate would receive its actual costs , subject to a maximum of 120 percent of the greater of ( 1 ) the rate for its cell and ( 2 ) the rate for the ...
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A target minimum occupancy rate , for purposes of this section , was assumed to be 70 to 75 percent ; a reduction in the supply of beds nationally of about 5 percent would result if all hospitals were raised to this level by reducing ...
A target minimum occupancy rate , for purposes of this section , was assumed to be 70 to 75 percent ; a reduction in the supply of beds nationally of about 5 percent would result if all hospitals were raised to this level by reducing ...
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By denying the automatic , yearly adjustment to any prevailing charge level which is more than 1 % times the statewide prevailing , a savings of approxi- mately 1.6 percent of current physician expenditues would be achieved .
By denying the automatic , yearly adjustment to any prevailing charge level which is more than 1 % times the statewide prevailing , a savings of approxi- mately 1.6 percent of current physician expenditues would be achieved .
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Similarly , approximately one - fifth of all hospitals now voluntarily keep their cost increases below 9 percent annually even though they are not required by law to do so . Moreover under our plan , we have in- cluded provisions which ...
Similarly , approximately one - fifth of all hospitals now voluntarily keep their cost increases below 9 percent annually even though they are not required by law to do so . Moreover under our plan , we have in- cluded provisions which ...
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