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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We must recognize that the delivery system itself is not completely responsible for generating those infla- tionary pressures . Rising labor and supply costs , the need to constantly upgrade equipment and physical facilities ...
We must recognize that the delivery system itself is not completely responsible for generating those infla- tionary pressures . Rising labor and supply costs , the need to constantly upgrade equipment and physical facilities ...
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The marginal savings be- tween ( 1 ) maintaining an empty bed and ( 2 ) ceasing to maintain such a bed but recognizing certain residual costs was assumed to average 20-30 percent , based on the hospital expense categories that could be ...
The marginal savings be- tween ( 1 ) maintaining an empty bed and ( 2 ) ceasing to maintain such a bed but recognizing certain residual costs was assumed to average 20-30 percent , based on the hospital expense categories that could be ...
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We recognize that our proposal is only a short - range measure , but it is no less necessary for being short - term and can serve the critical function of simply , quickly and effectively curbing the intolerable rise in hospital costs .
We recognize that our proposal is only a short - range measure , but it is no less necessary for being short - term and can serve the critical function of simply , quickly and effectively curbing the intolerable rise in hospital costs .
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This provision is important to protect low - wage hospital workers from any adverse impact of cost constraints and to recognize that their average wages today still are 15 percent below the wage for the average wage for nonagricultural ...
This provision is important to protect low - wage hospital workers from any adverse impact of cost constraints and to recognize that their average wages today still are 15 percent below the wage for the average wage for nonagricultural ...
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... States that have rate commissions that your bill recognizes and which the President's bill recognizes , in which hospital costs , hospital rate increases , or hos- pital revenue increases , are held below 9 percent .
... States that have rate commissions that your bill recognizes and which the President's bill recognizes , in which hospital costs , hospital rate increases , or hos- pital revenue increases , are held below 9 percent .
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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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