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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... incentive . Secretary CALIFANO . In the Talmadge proposal , if you go under it by 90 percent , you get half of that ... incentives on that scale . In both bills , I think ultimately in the long run , Senator , we are going to end up ...
... incentive . Secretary CALIFANO . In the Talmadge proposal , if you go under it by 90 percent , you get half of that ... incentives on that scale . In both bills , I think ultimately in the long run , Senator , we are going to end up ...
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... incentives for efficiency . As this Subcommittee also knows well , this method of reimbursement -- which also applies in other health programs - has contributed to rampaging inflation in the hospital industry ( which constitutes 40 ...
... incentives for efficiency . As this Subcommittee also knows well , this method of reimbursement -- which also applies in other health programs - has contributed to rampaging inflation in the hospital industry ( which constitutes 40 ...
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... incentive for hospitals to work with Professional Standards Review Or- ganizations to curtail this unnecessary ... incentives for hos- pitals to reduce unnecessary specialized facilities . For example , studies have shown that to ...
... incentive for hospitals to work with Professional Standards Review Or- ganizations to curtail this unnecessary ... incentives for hos- pitals to reduce unnecessary specialized facilities . For example , studies have shown that to ...
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... incentive to work with their medical staffs to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions . Changing these economic incentives to the hospital should help existing utilization review and PSRO programs work more effectively . Fourth , the ...
... incentive to work with their medical staffs to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions . Changing these economic incentives to the hospital should help existing utilization review and PSRO programs work more effectively . Fourth , the ...
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... incentive to reduce lengths of hospital stays . Any reduction in stays results in an automatic in- crease in the allowable revenue increase on a per diem basis . Again , these changed economic incentives should strengthen our existing ...
... incentive to reduce lengths of hospital stays . Any reduction in stays results in an automatic in- crease in the allowable revenue increase on a per diem basis . Again , these changed economic incentives should strengthen our existing ...
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