Government plans to investigate LTACHs
Case Management Weekly, March 3, 2004
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Gov't plans to investigate LTACHs
The following are the top four priorities this year for the
1. Overhauling the hospital payment system
2. Overseeing the Medicare Modernization Act
3. Investigating uninsured care issues
4. Exploring long-term care, including the way some hospitals push patients down their halls to the long-term acute care hospitals.
"This is a growing area of overutilization. We're concerned facilities are double-dipping," says Pete Stark, (D-CA).
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