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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... percent . They are permitted a profit rate of 10.5 percent . Your legislation would permit them to increase their profit rate by 33 percent to two times the long term rate , permitting them profits of 14 percent . We believe , as I ...
... percent . They are permitted a profit rate of 10.5 percent . Your legislation would permit them to increase their profit rate by 33 percent to two times the long term rate , permitting them profits of 14 percent . We believe , as I ...
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... percent return on equity , which we thought was rather reasonable . We think we have the same con- straints on for profit hospitals that we did earlier . If you have any recommendations to perfect it , we will be delighted to have them ...
... percent return on equity , which we thought was rather reasonable . We think we have the same con- straints on for profit hospitals that we did earlier . If you have any recommendations to perfect it , we will be delighted to have them ...
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... percent are below 9 percent . Of the large , those with 4,000 or more admissions , 14.7 percent are below 9 percent . Senator DOLE . Will you yield ? Senator TALMADGE . Yes . Senator DOLE . Are these the same hospitals each year , or is ...
... percent are below 9 percent . Of the large , those with 4,000 or more admissions , 14.7 percent are below 9 percent . Senator DOLE . Will you yield ? Senator TALMADGE . Yes . Senator DOLE . Are these the same hospitals each year , or is ...
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... percent cap . If we do not , be- tween now and 1981 , we will spend an additional $ 18.8 billion , cumu- latively ... percent . Do you have that worked out ? Secretary CALIFANO . Let me deal specifically with respect to hospi- tals that ...
... percent cap . If we do not , be- tween now and 1981 , we will spend an additional $ 18.8 billion , cumu- latively ... percent . Do you have that worked out ? Secretary CALIFANO . Let me deal specifically with respect to hospi- tals that ...
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... percent . Secretary CALIFANO . There are two points . Our studies indicate that within a year or so hospitals can be saving about half a billion dollars a year if they were just more efficient . Second , the energy cost piece of this ...
... percent . Secretary CALIFANO . There are two points . Our studies indicate that within a year or so hospitals can be saving about half a billion dollars a year if they were just more efficient . Second , the energy cost piece of this ...
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