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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... hospitals of equivalent size and type . Obviously a 200 bed short term general hospital with a large fraction of obstetrical patients will have different costs than a 200 bed short term general hospital with a large fraction of cardiac ...
... hospitals of equivalent size and type . Obviously a 200 bed short term general hospital with a large fraction of obstetrical patients will have different costs than a 200 bed short term general hospital with a large fraction of cardiac ...
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... hospital costs . While I will not attempt to describe the Administration's cost containment proposal in any great detail at this time , Mr. Chairman , I would like to take this opportunity to respond to several specific questions and ...
... hospital costs . While I will not attempt to describe the Administration's cost containment proposal in any great detail at this time , Mr. Chairman , I would like to take this opportunity to respond to several specific questions and ...
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... hospital costs can only be achieved by lowering the quality of patient care . Mr. Chairman , your Subcommittee has contributed significantly to our under- standing that more is not always better in the health care system . Unnecessary ...
... hospital costs can only be achieved by lowering the quality of patient care . Mr. Chairman , your Subcommittee has contributed significantly to our under- standing that more is not always better in the health care system . Unnecessary ...
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... Hospital Association's own data , community hospitals accumulated $ 1 ... costs from those beds in its revenue base . Third , there are now 700,000 ... costs , or $ 2.6 billion per year . Since the limit in the Administration's cost ...
... Hospital Association's own data , community hospitals accumulated $ 1 ... costs from those beds in its revenue base . Third , there are now 700,000 ... costs , or $ 2.6 billion per year . Since the limit in the Administration's cost ...
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... hospital costs . However , what that experience confirms is that policies promoted by dif- ferent payers acting alone can have only a limited impact on controlling hospital costs for the whole system . If the reimbursement system is to ...
... hospital costs . However , what that experience confirms is that policies promoted by dif- ferent payers acting alone can have only a limited impact on controlling hospital costs for the whole system . If the reimbursement system is to ...
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