Report to Congress
Subtitle: high-cost hospice care
By: Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Contributors: United States. Health Care Financing Administration; United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Secretary; Project Hope. Center for Health Affairs
Publisher: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Published: 1993
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.?]
Language: eng
Subjects: Economics; Medicare; Hospice Care; Costs; Hospice care
Other titles: High-cost hospice care.
Notes: "Prepared by the Health Care Financing Administration, with the assistance of the Project Center for Health Affairs under cooperative agreement no. 99-C-99168/3-01"--Acknowledgements.

Some copies include transmittal letters from Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services to Albert Gore, Jr., President, U.S. Senate and Thomas S. Foley, Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: Background and study approach; title: Medicare hospice enrollment and reimbursement analysis; title: Clinical advisory panel; title: High cost intervention study; title: Payment policy implications and payment recommendations; title: Summary and conclusions; title: References; title: Appendices. Appendix A. Glossary of terms ; Appendix B. Annotated bibliography ; Appendix C. Summary of panel deliberations ; Appendix D. HCIS survey form ; Appendix E. Data fields and coding guide.