Medicare Administration Costs: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session, August 2 and 27, 1976U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 239 pages |
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... increases ; and that congressional offices receive a constant stream of constituent mail complaining about delays and unexplained actions by intermediaries in the processing of medicare bills . Therefore , we would like to discuss today ...
... increases ; and that congressional offices receive a constant stream of constituent mail complaining about delays and unexplained actions by intermediaries in the processing of medicare bills . Therefore , we would like to discuss today ...
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... increases in each contractor's salaries as part of their monitoring and audit activities . Two of our audit reports have dealt to some extent with amounts paid by contractors to employees working directly on medicare . In September 30 ...
... increases in each contractor's salaries as part of their monitoring and audit activities . Two of our audit reports have dealt to some extent with amounts paid by contractors to employees working directly on medicare . In September 30 ...
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... increase any of their expenses by adding taxes , the Blue Cross rates go up , Blue Shield rates go up , and the citizens pay it . Mr. RANGEL . How do the insurance companies survive ? Mr. SIMMS . The actuarial basis for the private ...
... increase any of their expenses by adding taxes , the Blue Cross rates go up , Blue Shield rates go up , and the citizens pay it . Mr. RANGEL . How do the insurance companies survive ? Mr. SIMMS . The actuarial basis for the private ...
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... increases . But the committee's attempt to control costs in any meaningful way in the last four years has come under ... increase of 35 percent - in some cases exceeding 50 percent - was announced for most Blues groups last October ...
... increases . But the committee's attempt to control costs in any meaningful way in the last four years has come under ... increase of 35 percent - in some cases exceeding 50 percent - was announced for most Blues groups last October ...
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... increasing , it is clear that most of the business is handled without trouble . But state officials and subscribers still are concerned about some aspects of customer service . An audit of Blue Shield by the State Insurance ...
... increasing , it is clear that most of the business is handled without trouble . But state officials and subscribers still are concerned about some aspects of customer service . An audit of Blue Shield by the State Insurance ...
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