TITLE

Medicare dependent hospitals: Who depends on whom?

AUTHOR(S)
Goody, Brigid
PUB. DATE
December 1992
SOURCE
Health Care Financing Review;Winter92, Vol. 14 Issue 2, p97
SOURCE TYPE
Academic Journal
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Determines whether either the current Medicare dependent hospitals (MDH) or alternative high Medicare hospitals (HMH) targeting criterion identifies hospitals whose closure might impair access to care for Medicare beneficiaries residing in their service areas. Characteristics of Medicare dependent hospitals; Characteristics of high Medicare hospitals.
ACCESSION #
9309035007

Tags: MEDICARE;  HOSPITALS -- Finance

 

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