Home Health Agencies: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session, August 10, 1978 |
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Page 27 - The costs of providers' services vary from one provider to another and the variations generally reflect differences in scope of services and intensity of care. The provision in title XVIII of the Act for payment of reasonable cost of services is intended to meet the actual costs, however widely they may vary from one institution to another. This is subject to a limitation where a particular institution's costs are found to be substantially out of line with other institutions in the same area which...
Page 27 - Medicare trust funds, and to other patients. (2) The costs of providers' services vary from one provider to another and the variations generally reflect differences in scope of services and intensity of care. The provision in...
Page 2 - We are pleased to be here today to discuss the results of our review of the Department of Defense's (DOD) management of its Asset Capitalization Program (ACP).
Page 5 - If a provider of services furnishes items or services to an individual which are in excess of or more expensive than the items or services determined to be necessary in the efficient delivery of needed health services...
Page 65 - Medicare of the financing of the hospital insurance program (part A) and the supplementary medical insurance program (part B). Supplementary medical insurance, which primarily covers physicians' fees, is now a voluntary program with one-half paid from general revenues.
Page 5 - ... may provide for the use of estimates of costs of particular items or services, may provide for the establishment of limits on the direct or indirect overall incurred costs or incurred costs of specific items or services or groups of items or services to be recognized as reasonable based on estimates of the costs necessary in the efficient delivery of needed health services to individuals covered by the insurance programs established under this title...
Page 79 - The reasonable cost of any services shall be the cost actually incurred, excluding therefrom any part of incurred cost found to be unnecessary in the efficient delivery of needed health services...
Page 58 - ... to defend such a position when the white power structure has failed so miserably in the past despite their control over substantial resources. However, it is my contention that black community leaders and black educators working directly for the community and being responsible to the community can do a much better job than has been done in the past by instilling in black children a sense of self-pride and universal values, and this pride will offset the psychological damage generally associated...
Page 59 - We may have some more questions that we will submit to you in writing for the record, and we will hold the record open for another 10 days or 2 weeks.