Medicare-medicaid Administrative and Reimbursement Reform Act: Hearings 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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... allow hospitals the opportunity to rectify what they believe to have been an inappropriate decision . Results of the statistical measurements of cost savings achieved by the pro- spective reimbursement systems analyzed are summarized in ...
... allow hospitals the opportunity to rectify what they believe to have been an inappropriate decision . Results of the statistical measurements of cost savings achieved by the pro- spective reimbursement systems analyzed are summarized in ...
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... allow payment for wage increases to nonsupervisory employees with- out limit . You touch on that in your statement . Maybe it is necessary . I do not know . You explain that it is because some are in the lower pay category . Has that ...
... allow payment for wage increases to nonsupervisory employees with- out limit . You touch on that in your statement . Maybe it is necessary . I do not know . You explain that it is because some are in the lower pay category . Has that ...
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... allow for improvements without additional legislation . Fifth , Section Two does not place a limit on actual increases in hospital costs over time , but instead bases its limits on the average costs for types of hospitals . Thus , if ...
... allow for improvements without additional legislation . Fifth , Section Two does not place a limit on actual increases in hospital costs over time , but instead bases its limits on the average costs for types of hospitals . Thus , if ...
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... allow elected officials , program managers and the public to reliably and validly know the accuracy of the eligibility system at regularly recurring intervals . The basic principles of this nationwide quality control system should be ...
... allow elected officials , program managers and the public to reliably and validly know the accuracy of the eligibility system at regularly recurring intervals . The basic principles of this nationwide quality control system should be ...
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... allow hospitals to receive full reimbursement for costs up to 20 percent higher than the average of their peer group . In our view , this is far more permissive than the limit already set by some States . In New York State , for example ...
... allow hospitals to receive full reimbursement for costs up to 20 percent higher than the average of their peer group . In our view , this is far more permissive than the limit already set by some States . In New York State , for example ...
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Page 384 - Nothing in this title shall be construed to authorize any Federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision or control over the practice of medicine or the manner in which medical services are provided...
Page 433 - ... (2) changes the bed capacity of the facility with respect to which such expenditure is made, or (3) substantially changes the services of the facility with respect to which such expenditure is made.
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Page 160 - An allowance of a reasonable return on equity capital invested and used in the provision of patient care is allowable as an element of the reasonable cost of covered services furnished to beneficiaries by proprietary providers. The amount allowable on an annual basis is determined by applying to the provider's equity capital a percentage equal to one and one-half times the average of the rates of interest on special issues of public debt obligations issued to the Federal...
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