Hospital Cost Containment.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicaid.

Medical economics.

Medicare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (13 pages) : digital, PDF file

monochrome

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1977.

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Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

CRS Report.

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.

Other Format:

Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Hospital Cost Containment. 77-H782-33

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