Implications of the Balanced Budget Act on Rural Hospitals
Implications of the Balanced Budget Act on Rural Hospitals

Author: United States. Congress

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-01-05

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 9781983491078

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Implications of the Balanced Budget Act on rural hospitals : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, special hearing, July 11, 2000--Washington, DC.

Implications of the Balanced Budget Act on Rural Hospitals
Implications of the Balanced Budget Act on Rural Hospitals

Author: Thad Cochran

Publisher:

Published: 2000-06-01

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 9780756724474

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Witnesses: Robert A. Berenson, M.D., Dir., Center for Health Plans and Providers, Health Care Financing Admin. (HCFA); Mary Wakefield, RN, Ph.D., prof. and dir., Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, George Mason Univ.; Thomas A. Scully, pres. and ceo, Fed. of Amer. Health Systems; Jimmy Blessitt, administrator, South Sunflower County Hospital, Indianola, MS; Phillip L. Grady, administrator, King's Daughters Hospital, Brookhaven, MS; and Senators Thad Cochran, Conrad Burns, Herb Kohl, Richard J. Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, and Charles Grassley.

S. Hrg. 106-898
S. Hrg. 106-898

Author: U. S. Government Printing Office (Gpo)

Publisher: BiblioGov

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781289694913

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The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) was created in June 1860, and is an agency of the U.S. federal government based in Washington D.C. The office prints documents produced by and for the federal government, including Congress, the Supreme Court, the Executive Office of the President and other executive departments, and independent agencies. A hearing is a meeting of the Senate, House, joint or certain Government committee that is open to the public so that they can listen in on the opinions of the legislation. Hearings can also be held to explore certain topics or a current issue. It typically takes between two months up to two years to be published. This is one of those hearings.

The Effect of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 on Financial Indicators of Critical Access Hospitals in Pennsylvania
The Effect of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 on Financial Indicators of Critical Access Hospitals in Pennsylvania

Author: Shane Daniel Flickinger

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13:

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The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 allows qualified rural hospitals in the United States to convert to Critical Access Hospital (CAH) status. In order to aid Medicare reimbursement rates, CAHs receive cost-based reimbursement for Medicare patients. However, the overall improvement in financial indicators of CAHs remains unclear. Therefore, this analysis has three goals: - To compare the financial performance of Pennsylvania CAHs and rural hospitals. - To assess the evidence of the effects of conversion on financial performance. - To identify factors affecting financial performance. Rural hospitals are classified as rural hospitals that are not eligible to convert to CAH status or elected not to convert. Prior research on CAHs is limited and focuses primarily on quality assessment and quality indicators. Additionally, no prior research examines the financial indicators of CAHs in Pennsylvania. As a result of this analysis, rural hospitals in Pennsylvania considering a conversion to CAH status will be able to project likely financial impacts. Policymakers will also be able to compare the financial indicators of CAHs to other rural hospitals in Pennsylvania to determine if the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 is achieving its desired impact in Pennsylvania. Descriptive statistics are utilized to assess the financial performance of hospitals and the effects of conversion by examining the change in financial indicators in the two years before and after conversion. A repeated measures analysis of variance identifies factors associated with the financial indicators of CAHs in Pennsylvania compared to rural hospitals before and after conversion to CAH status. Using a general linear model, this analysis examines the effect of adjacency to a metropolitan county and net patient revenue on financial performance.