Hospital Cost Containment.
Staff summary, prepared with CRS assistance, for the Subcom on Health and the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee Subcom on Health and the Environment, on proposed remedies for rising national health expenditures.
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| Format: | Government Document eBook |
| Language: | English |
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1977.
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| Series: | U.S. Congressional Research.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Staff summary, prepared with CRS assistance, for the Subcom on Health and the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee Subcom on Health and the Environment, on proposed remedies for rising national health expenditures. Explores existing methods of hospital reimbursement and programs to control costs, and analyzes 95th Congress legislative proposals, including: H.R. 6575 and identical S. 1391, the Hospital Cost Containment Act of 1977, to establish a temporary limit on hospital revenue increases; and S. 1470, to provide for a new reimbursement mechanism for hospital operating costs under medicare and medicaid programs. |
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| Item Description: | Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed June 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC. CRS Report. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |