Hospitals Say They're Penalized By Medicare for Improving Care

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Intermountain Health Care is trying to change the way Medicare reimburses hospitals for improving care, especially for patients with pneumonia. Medicare has fixed payments for the estimates of what an average cost of medical care per patient should be. This means that quality treatment which avoids a hospital stay is reimbursed poorly, and a more serious medical condition is underfunded. Doctors and administrators are trying to get Congress to address outdated and imbalanced financial policies that hinder that right kind of care.

United States, Financial management, Services information, Administration of Public Health Programs, Utah, Health Care Services, Medical & Health Services, Idaho, Economic aspects, Services, Medicare, Company financing, Medical care (Private), Intermountain Healthcare Inc.

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Gener therapy for heart patient a first

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St. Michael's Hospital has announced that its doctors have performed an experimental procedure on a heart disease patient, The cardiac gene therapy procedure, which involved injecting a DNA-based substance into the patient's heart, was performed after the patient's heart became too clogged for traditional procedures.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Science & research, Research and Testing Services, Surgical Procedures, Heart, Lung & Blood Disease R&D, Research, Surgery, Medical research

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Something is rotten in the state of health care

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The lack of hospital financing in British Columbia and other Canadian provinces is discussed. There is a shortage of nurses, doctors, and surgical facilities even though the economy of Canada is good in the year 2000.

Government expenditures, Health Care, British Columbia, Column

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