Community Home Health Services Act of 1981: Hearing Before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, on S. 234 ... March 4, 1981-November 10, 1981, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981 |
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... necessary home health care is avail- able when necessary . The monetary and human costs of inappropri- ate institutionalization are simply unacceptable . Misguided incentives in our Nation's health care financing sys- tems are an ...
... necessary home health care is avail- able when necessary . The monetary and human costs of inappropri- ate institutionalization are simply unacceptable . Misguided incentives in our Nation's health care financing sys- tems are an ...
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... necessary , and the major assets of staff physicians , nurses , and social workers who can form teams together . Only through hospitals can these resources be brought to bear . Otherwise , the system in many instances is likely to fail ...
... necessary , and the major assets of staff physicians , nurses , and social workers who can form teams together . Only through hospitals can these resources be brought to bear . Otherwise , the system in many instances is likely to fail ...
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... necessary key development . Thank you . The CHAIRMAN . Thank you . I mention to you , Dr. Brickner and Dr. Lechich , that I apologize for our colleagues not being here . There is a very important agri- culture meeting today that has a ...
... necessary key development . Thank you . The CHAIRMAN . Thank you . I mention to you , Dr. Brickner and Dr. Lechich , that I apologize for our colleagues not being here . There is a very important agri- culture meeting today that has a ...
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... necessary for the varied expertise that they manifest in the assess- ment process . Professor Williams of Rochester , and others , have stressed the importance of having the physician in on that first assessment . Many causes of ...
... necessary for the varied expertise that they manifest in the assess- ment process . Professor Williams of Rochester , and others , have stressed the importance of having the physician in on that first assessment . Many causes of ...
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... necessary that they should be prescribed by physi- cians ? Dr. BRICKNER . Senator , I am not adequately familiar with that point in detail , but I will give you a brief , general answer . We are talking about nonprofessional health ...
... necessary that they should be prescribed by physi- cians ? Dr. BRICKNER . Senator , I am not adequately familiar with that point in detail , but I will give you a brief , general answer . We are talking about nonprofessional health ...
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1979 Amendments 97th Congress ABAUNZA AFHHA aged appropriate bill BRICKNER certificate of need CHAIRMAN Chelsea Village program chronic Community Home Health CONGRESS THE LIBRARY COPD coverage disease elderly expand Federation of Home free-standing funds GIORDANO going Halamandaris health care services Health Planning Health Services Act home care home care services home health agencies home health aide home health benefits home health care home health services homebound homemaker hospital days Human Resources incentives include home health increase individuals institutionalization Labor and Human Lechich legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS long-term Medicaid program Medicare million Miss DUNPHY non-profit hospitals nursing home occupational therapy patients percent persons physician population problems proprietary provide home health regulations rehabilitation reimbursement respiratory therapy ROSENBERG rural areas Senator Denton Senator Hawkins Senator NICKLES Services and Staffing skilled nursing Staffing Association testimony Thank therapists tion Title XX underserved areas WORSTELL
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Page 159 - For health services, such as inpatient health services and other institutional health services, for which competition does not or will not appropriately allocate supply...
Page 153 - The massive infusion of Federal funds into the existing health care system has contributed to inflationary increases in the cost of health care and failed to produce an adequate supply or distribution of health resources , and consequently has not made possible equal access for everyone to such resources.
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Page 153 - Increases in the cost of health care, particularly of hospital stays, have been uncontrollable and inflationary, and there are presently inadequate incentives for the use of appropriate alternative levels of health care, and for the substitution of ambulatory and intermediate care for inpatient hospital care.
Page 159 - The strengthening of competitive forces in the health services industry wherever competition and consumer choice can constructively serve, in accordance with subsection (b), to advance the purposes of quality assurance, cost effectiveness, and access.
Page 154 - health care facility" means hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, kidney disease treatment centers (including freestanding hemodialysis units), intermediate care facilities, rehabilitation facilities, and ambulatory surgical facilities, but does not include Christian Science sanatoriums operated, or listed and certified, by the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts. Further: (1) The term "hospital...
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