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Date March 24, 1981 Report No. 114801 Title

Health: Proposal To Phase Out Professional Standards Review Program

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY Expected at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, 1981 STATEMENT OF GREGORY J. AHART, DIRECTOR 114801 HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEES U.S. ON OVERSIGHT AND HEALTH HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON -L PROPOSAL TO PHASE OUT 'EEzTJr PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS REVIEW PROGRAM 3 Mr. Chairmen and Members of the Oversigh...
Date March 23, 1981 Report No. 114745 Title

Health: Proposal To Phase Out the Professional Standards Review Program

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY Expected at 9:30 a.m. Monday, March 23, 1981 RIll 114745 STATEMENT OF GREGORY J. AHART, DIRECTOR HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE COMMITTEE U.S. ON HEALTH ON FINANCE SENATE ON c PROPOSAL TO PHASE OUT THE STANDARDS REVIEW PROGRAM PROFESSIONAL Mr. Chairman to be here phase out program review today ...
Date Feb. 20, 1981 Report No. HRD-81-50 Title

Health: Analysis of Proposed New Standards for Nursing Homes Participating in Medicare and Medicaid

BY THE’CCYv’lPTROLLER GENERAL Report To The Chairman Select Committee On Aging House Of Representatives For Nursing Homes Participating In Medicare And Medicaid In July 1980, the Department of Health and Human Services published proposed new regulations for nursing homes participating in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. These regulations would consolidate requirements now stated in separate...
Date Feb. 18, 1981 Report No. HRD-81-59 Title

Health: Information on Health Facility Costs Related to Using Nurse Supplemental Staffing Services

aA0 United States General Accounting Offlce Washington, DC 20548 Human Resources Division February -r(” . ,/“---A 18, 1981 Mr. Paul Willyiny Acting Administrator Health Care Financing Subject: Administration jl,. on Health Facility Costs Related to Using Nurse Supplemental Staffing Services (HRD-81-59) 3 Dear Mr. Willying: Over within the impact on facilities The extent two States to regulate ...
Date Jan. 1, 1981 Report No. 117094 Title

Special Publications: Profiles of Older People

r* * *.- P r The data in this booklet is based on Ohio, which incl the characteristic Ohio with older p To set the stage for this booklet, a brief discussion of the three studies-Ohio, Oregon, and Kentucky-follows. ess of the United States. s General Accounting Office provides this booklet to the delegates to help them in their deliberations. We believe that by knowing about older people in these...
Date Dec. 31, 1980 Report No. HRD-81-36 Title

Health: Programs To Control Prescription Drug Costs Under Medicaid and Medicare Could Be Strengthened

Comptroller General OF THE UNITED STATES Programs To Control Prescription Drug Costs Under Medicaid~ And Medicare Could Be Strengthened In August 1976 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) put into effect two programs to control the costs of prescription drugs under Medicaid and Medicare. One program--Maximum Allowable Cost (or MAC)--was designed to take advantage of competition in t-h...
Date Dec. 29, 1980 Report No. HRD-81-26 Title

Health: Department of Health and Human Services Should Improve Monitoring of Professional Standards Review Organizations

Report T The Subcommittee o On Oversight, House Committee On WaysAnd Means EASED O THE UNITED STATES F Department O Health And f Human ServicesShouId Improve MonitoringOf Professional Standards Review Organizations Professional Standards Review Organizations (PSROs) are designed to assure that health care services provided under Medicare and Medicaid are delivered as effectively, effi ciently, and...
Date Dec. 16, 1980 Report No. HRD-81-45 Title

Health: Alleged Questionable Actions by Electronic Data Systems Federal Corp. To Reduce Its Claims and Correspondence Backlogs Under Its Medicare Contract in Illinois

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTINGOFFICE WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 December16, 1989 HUMAN RKSOURCEI DIVISION B-200211 The Honorable Charles Range1 Chairman, Subcommittee on Health Ways and Means Committee House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: Ill II llllllllll 113991 .^- Review of Alleged Questionable Actions by EDSF to Reduce its Claims and Correspondence Backlogs Under its Medicare Contract in ...
Date Dec. 16, 1980 Report No. HRD-81-44 Title

Health: Alleged Questionable Actions by Electronic Data Systems Federal Corp. To Reduce Its Claims and Correspondence Backlogs Under Its Medicare Contract in Illinois

.-‘- rJ r.” UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTINGOFFICE WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 December 16, 1980 HUMAN RISOURCES DIVISION B-200211 The Honorable Paul Simon House of Representatives Dear Mr. Simon: Review of L lleged Questionable Actions by EDSF to Reduce its Claims and Correspondence Backlogs Under its Medicare Contract in Illinois (HRD-81-44) Ii This is in response to your request for a report on ...
Date Dec. 5, 1980 Report No. HRD-81-34 Title

Health: Validation of the Health Care Related Convictions Attributed to the Office of Investigations of the Department of Health and Human Services

GAO Unrtzd States General Accounting Office w- h:n$n DC ?05 18 Human Resources Division December B-201407 5, 1980 Mr. Jay B. Constantine Chief, Health Profeeaional ~Committee on Fi'nanc8~k United Stat86 Senate Subject: c Validation Staff of the Health Care Related . r>!-.(I (1 ,#;' 1i'>Conviction8 Attributed to the Office of Investigations of the Department of Health and Human (HRD-81-34) Dear Mr....
Date Oct. 22, 1980 Report No. HRD-81-12 Title

Health: Reasonable Charge Reductions Under Part B of Medicare

GAO United States General Accounting Office Ufzhlngton. DC 20548 Human Resources Division B-200144 OCTOBER 22,198O The Honorable The Secretary Dear Mrs. Patricia Roberts Harris of Health and Human Services 113625 _. Harris: Charge A easonable %art B of Medicare Reductions Under (HRD-81-12) Subject: J Pursuant to a request from Senator Lawton Chiles, ChairSenate Special Committee on Aging, we exami...
Date Oct. 6, 1980 Report No. HRD-81-2 Title

Health: Federal Funding for State Medicaid Fraud Control Units Still Needed

4! ’ * ’ 7@w saw.. BY THECOMPTROLLERGENERAL C$ THEUNITEDSTATES /WW? Report ToThe Congress Fiederal Funding For State edicaid Fraud Control nits Still Needed fraud units, established after for such units was increased percent of their costs for fiscal years 78-80, have increased States’ ability to instigate and prosecute Medicaid fraud. Hownot become self-supporting fraud control units operat...
Date Sept. 19, 1980 Report No. HRD-80-72 Title

Health: Rising Hospital Costs Can Be Restrained by Regulating Payments and Improving Management

BY THECOMPTROLLER GEiEl-iAL Report ToThe Congress OF THEUNITED STATES Rising Hospital Costs Can Be Restrained By Regulating Payments And Improving Management Cost-based retrospective payment for hospital services is inherently inflationary. Yet, because retrospective payment is the prevalent reimbursement method used by third-party payers, both government and private, most hospital payments today ...
Date July 16, 1980 Report No. B-199563 Title

Government Operations: GAO Study Required by Reconciliation Act of 1980

' B-199563 We understand the need for the study required by section 554(b)(2) to resolve the longstanding issue of the appropriate basis for payments to hospitals for the costs of providing routine nursing care to Medicare beneficiaries. We wish to call to your attention, however, factors that will affect our ability to carry out the study or to fully meet the study's stated requirements in the al...
Date June 12, 1980 Report No. HRD-80-93 Title

Health: Questions About the Cost-Benefit Analyses of the Professional Standards Review Organization Program

Division B-199164 JUNE 12,198O ’ i/The Honorable George M. O'Brien House of Representatives Dear Mr. O'Brien: uestions About ssional the Cost-Benefit Analyses of Standards Review Organization Subject: Your to the Review .sid tHuman i these of the enclosed. :A May 20, 1980, letter, asked four questions related cost -benefit analyses of the Professional Standards (y 4 d'Cc Organization (PSRO) prog...
Date April 28, 1980 Report No. 112192 Title

Health: Electronic Data Systems Federal Corporation's Performance as a Medicare Contractor in Illinois

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 OFFICE . FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY Expected at 10:00 A.M. April 28, 1980 Monday, Illinois Chicago, STATEMENT OF MICHAEL ZIMMERMAN i~..,,ASSOCIATE DIRECTOZ, HUMAN RESOURCES DIVIS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON* HEALTH HOUSE GAYS AN3 MEANS COMMITTEE ON DATA SYSTEMS PEELPOXMANCE AS Illill II lllllll 1111 112192 Mr. pleased of Chairman to be here Data ...
Date March 13, 1980 Report No. HRD-80-49 Title

Health: Unreliability of the American Health Planning Association's Savings Estimate for the Health Planning Program

5-137533 MARCH 13, ‘I980 The Honorable "he Secretary 77 t‘elfare Dear Yrs. Subject: Patricia Zoberts Harris 0: :ealt$, Educaticn, and 25 0 cisg;-,b fiG? "_, ,"I Unreliability cf the American ,Yealth i 5Jlanning Associaticn's Savings Estimate the Eealth Planning Progran ~(EXF-30-49j ___". :;c _-,ri e. i-iarris: for Di&YP/'f iiealth Planning Association, Tq. earlv -. 1979 the American areawide a...
Date Feb. 25, 1980 Report No. B-197171 Title

Government Operations: Comments on H.R. 2626

COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINAGTON. D.C. 20548 The i~. wiiirlFebruary 25, 1980 i a B-197171 i ~The Honorable Harrison A. Williams, Jr. Chairman, Committee on Labor and Human Resources United States SenateK- -I Dear Mr. Chairman: Your letter of December 3, 1979, requested our [comments on H.R. 2626) a bill to establish a National Commission on Hospital Cos±s, to encourage volunta...
Date Jan. 21, 1980 Report No. HRD-80-35 Title

Health: Hospitals in the Same Area Often Pay Widely Different Prices for Comparable Supply Items

BY THE COMPTR0LLE.R .(SENERAL ‘Report To The Chairman, SubcommitteedF ’ On Health, Committee On Finance United States Senate OF Tt-iEUNITED STATES Hospitals In The Same Area Often Pay Widely Different Prices For Comparable Supply Items GAO ~surveyed prices of supplies routinely purchased by 37 hospitals in six cities and found wide differences in prices paid for similar items. The most frequen...
Date Jan. 11, 1980 Report No. HRD-80-42 Title

Health: Savings Claimed for the Oklahoma Hospital Utilization Review System Were Overstated

BY THE U.S GENE NTING OFFICE *I Report To The Honorable Henry EMnm United States Senate . Savings Claimed For The Oklahoma Hospital Utilization Review System Were Overstated The estimated savings claimed for the system used to assess Medicare and Medicaid hospital utilization in Oklahoma were overstated. The estimated savings were based on incomplete and inaccurate Medicare and Medicaid population...
Date Dec. 6, 1979 Report No. HRD-80-27 Title

Health: Need To Better Use the Professional Standards Review Organization Post-Payment Monitoring Program

REPORTB’YTHE US #J General Accounting Office Need To Better Use The Professional Standards Review Orga~nization Post-Payment Monitoring Program Professional Standards Review Organizations are designed to assure that health care services provided under Medicaid and Medicare are delivered as effectively, efficiently, and economically as possible. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare’...
Date Nov. 26, 1979 Report No. PAD-80-12 Title

Health: Entering a Nursing Home--Costly Implications for Medicaid and the Elderly

OF THEUNITEDSTATES Entering A Nursing Home-Costly Implications For Medicaid And The Elderly Medicaid has become the chief support of nursing home care for the chronically impaired elderly. However, many of these recipients could have remained in their own homes or communities if long-term health and social services were available to them. Factors leading to premature stitutional care include: or a...
Date Nov. 13, 1979 Report No. HRD-80-6 Title

Health: Health Costs Can Be Reduced by Millions of Dollars if Federal Agencies Fully Carry Out GAO Recommendations

-6iw++ j BY THECOMPTROLLERGiNERAL OF THEUNITEDSTATES I mw ; Report To The Congress Health Costs Can Be Reduced By Millions Of Dollars If Federal Agencies Fully Carry Out GAO Recommendations Because of the increasing costs of Government health programs--a subject of nationwide concern--GAO reviewed how agencies have implemented its recommendations to help control the costs of health programs. GAO f...
Date Oct. 22, 1979 Report No. HRD-80-10 Title

Health: Duplicate Payments for Medical Services by VA and Medicare Programs

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 205 HUMAN RSI.MRC OIVISION OCTOBER 22.1979 B-133044 The Honorable Max Cleland Administrator of Veterans Affairs The Honorable Patricia Roberts Harris The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Subject: Duplicate Payments for Medical Services by VA and Medicare Programs (HRD-80-10) We have performed a limited review to determine the numb...
Date Oct. 15, 1979 Report No. HRD-80-3 Title

Health: Administration of Contract Between HEW and Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound

UNKED STATES GENERALACCOUNTINGOFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 HUMAN REBOCJRC%S DIVISION B-154031 Mr. Jay B. Constantine Chief, Health Professional Subcommittee on Health Committee on Finance United States Senate Dear Mr. Constantine: Subject: i/ Staff ~l~l~llllll ll i 10855 HEW's Contract With Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound Covering Medical Care Provided to Medicare --Noncompliance With Ben...
Date Oct. 2, 1979 Report No. HRD-79-96 Title

Health: Simplifying the Medicare/Medicaid Buy-In Program Would Reduce Improper State Claims of Federal Funds

BY THECOMPTROLLER GENERAL Report ToThe Congress f OF THEUNITEDSTATES Simplifying The Medicare/Medicaid Buy-in Program Would Reduce Improper State Claims Of Federal Funds This report highlights problems in the Medicar#/Medicaid buy-in program which result in improper State claims for Federal sharing. Because the program is complicated, some St&S --overclaim Federal sharing for Medicare insurance pr...
Date Sept. 25, 1979 Report No. HRD-79-120 Title

Health: Inappropriate Handling of Patients' Personal Funds by the City of St. Louis Health and Hospital Division

Unarm STATESGENERAL ACCOUNTING OFF'ICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 B-164031(3) The Honorable William L. Clay House of Representatives Dear SEPTEMBER RELEASED Mr. Clay: Subject: cfnappropriate Handling of Patients' Personal Funds By the City of St. Louis Bealth and Hospital Division J (HRD-79-120) ds to your December 4, 1978, letter that we look into the alleged improper use of unds by the City of St, L...
Date Sept. 10, 1979 Report No. HRD-79-116 Title

Health: Blue Cross Association Performance as a Medicare Contractor

HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION RELEASED SEPTEMBER IO, 1979 B-164031(3) The Honorable Sam M. Gibbons Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight Committee on Ways and Means %0' 0 House of Representatives 6 -II f Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: Blue Cross Association Performance I? as a Medicare Contractor (HRD-79-116) 3 Your March 1, 1979, letter (and attachments) requested that we examine (1) potential future roles...
Date Sept. 6, 1979 Report No. HRD-79-111 Title

Health: Comparison of Physician Charges and Allowances Under Private Health Insurance Plans and Medicare

-* l z i REPORTBY THE OF THE UNITEDSTATES .! Comptroller General RELEASED , GAO compared samples of physician charges and allowances at six Medicare carriers and found that physicians usually charge Medicare patients the same as other patients, but that Medicare usually allows less for physician’s services than do private health insurance plans. HEW headquarters officials said they do not know t...
Date July 26, 1979 Report No. 109983 Title

Health: HEW's Proposed System for Hospital Uniform Reporting

. . . - _ ::.. . ..&... ,_ : \ I_ .-- _b” ___* .. . . . . ,&-.g3 1 .L L’- --.- llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll LMl09993 UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY EXPECTED AT 3:00 P.M. THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1979 STATEMENT OF THOMAS P. MCCORMICK, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION BEFORE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE ~~~&'...
Date July 19, 1979 Report No. HRD-79-52 Title

Health: Problems With Evaluating the Cost Effectiveness of Professional Standards Review Organizations

-. REPORT THE BY OF THE UNITED STATES Professional Standards Review Organizations are designed to assure that health care services provided under Medicare and Medicaid are delivered as effectively, efficiently, and economically as possible. GAO reviewed nine estimates of cost savings for Professional Standards Review Organizations totaling $21.4 million plus 67,000 patient days of care and found t...
Date June 29, 1979 Report No. HRD-79-76 Title

Health: More Can Be Done To Achieve Greater Efficiency in Contracting for Medicare Claims Processing

/mPgo _ B)’ THE CO M PTROL ER GENERA L l~~l~~~~~~l~~~~ L r 1 Report To The Congress OF THEUNITEDSTATES - More Can Be Done To Achieve Greater Efficiency In Contracting Medicare Claims Processing This is a comprehensive study of the claims processing system under Medicare. GAO found many opportunities for HEW to improve its administration and is recommending that the Congress and HEW take a number...
Date June 29, 1979 Report No. 117527 Title

Health: Survey of the Potential To Reduce the Cost of Medicare and Medicaid Administration

* 7 , . @i * i c i . ) " * UNITED STATES GENERALACCOUN+lNGOI%CE WASlyiINGTON; DC. 20548 HUMAN RESOURCES DlVISlON June 29, 1979 >r,: ,< 7.,. ‘i: :/ ” Y: ,-._ 117527 Mr. Leonard Shaeffer Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration Department of Health, Education and Welfare Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Schaeffer: We recently completed a study of the Medicare and frledicaid billing systems c...
Date June 27, 1979 Report No. 109829 Title

Health: The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's Professional Standards Review Organization Program

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE Washington, D.C. 20548 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY Expected at 5:OO a.m. June 27, 1979 STATEMENT OF THOMAS F. MCCORMICK, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT COMPI!ITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES x ON r, kj I L, I;-'\J L I THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND !I,13 /a -WELFARE'S PROFE...
Date June 7, 1979 Report No. 109595 Title

Health: Status of Implementation of the National Blood Policy

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY Expected at 9 a.m., EDT Thursday, June 7, 1979 STATEMENT OF STEPHEN J. VARHOLY, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES UNITED STATES SENATE ON STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE Jr NATIONAL BLOOD POLICg b L 2, Mr. ...
Date May 15, 1979 Report No. HRD-79-17 Title

Health: Home Health Care Services--Tighter Fiscal Controls Needed

BY THECOMPTROLLERGENERAL llllllllllllllllllllIllllllllll ’ LM109398 t e ngress OF THEUNITEDSTATES Home Health Care Sewicesr Fiscal Controls Needed The cost of home health care services under Medicare has spiraled in recent years--$786 million is projected for fiscal year 1979. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare has long been aware of the need to contain these costs through limits o...
Date May 14, 1979 Report No. HRD-79-37 Title

Health: The Medicare Hospital Certification System Needs Reform

BY THECOMPTROLLERGENERAL ,rrrlllllllllllll~~~~~~ ED STATES dicare Hospital ‘The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare is required by law to certify that all hospitals participating in the Medicare program are providing quality care to patients. Hospitals accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals are automatically certified except for two requirements. However, the c...
Date April 23, 1979 Report No. HRD-79-63 Title

Health: Evaluation of a Proposal To Increase Medicare Equity Return Payments to For-Profit Hospitals

For-Profit Hospitals This report discusses questions raised by the Senate Committee on Finance concerning a proposal to increase Medicare equity return payments to for-profit hospitals. The proposal is based on a recent study by a private which recommends a consulting firm, 147-percent increase in the rate of Medicare equity return. GAO does not, however, believe that the study presents a persuasi...
Date April 3, 1979 Report No. 120174 Title

Health: Implementation of Reimbursement Procedures for Outpatient Dialysis Treatments Under the End Stage Renal Disease Program of Medicare

- ~EDSTATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE DC. 20.548 \ WASHINGTON, HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION April 3, 1979 Mr. Leonard Schaeffer, Health Care Financing Department of Health, Welfare Dear Mr. Schaeffer: Administrator Administration Education, Ne have recently completed a survey of the implementation of reimbursement procedures for outpatient dialysis treatments under the end stage renal disease program/...
Date March 9, 1979 Report No. 120152 Title

Health: Survey of Medicare Clinics in Florida

* * UWED STATES GENERALACCOUNTIKG REGIONAL 221 COU~TIIAND OFFICE OFFICE srt?z~-r. r-v& ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303 . E5i. krginia VI. Sqyth ' ' Regional !KMnistrator HeaNn Care Znaxing &?ministration Depwtxent of H&Lth, Education, md Iklfare 101 &'arietta TMer Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Dear Es. sx!yth: >?ergcently ~._- .comleted a survey of"%edicaze Clinics" in ___. _ As you box, thz clinics have a htgh ~...
Date Feb. 26, 1979 Report No. HRD-78-172 Title

Health: Actions Needed To Stop Excess Medicare Payments for Blood and Blood Products

B’Y’ THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL Report To The Congress OF THE UNITED STATES Actions Needed To Stop Excess Medicare Payments For Blood And Blood Products Billing and replacement practices of blood banks and hospitals have caused substantial Medicare overpayments for blood and blood products. Blood banks have prevented the use of blood replacement credits to reduce blood fees whenever Medicare woul...
Date Jan. 9, 1979 Report No. HRD-78-158 Title

Health: Problems in Auditing Medicaid Nursing Home Chains

1 W?S*r ” BY THECOMPTROLLER GENERAL Report To The Congress OF THE UNITED STATES Problems In Auditing Medicaid Nursing’ Home Chains Headquarters for nursing home chains engage in financial transactions with their affiliates. The nursing homes put in claims for the costs of such transactions on their cost reports--the basis on which the States reimburse them for care provided to Medicaid patient...
Date Sept. 26, 1978 Report No. HRD-78-86 Title

The Health Service Plan of Pennsylvania, Inc.: A Federally Qualified Health Maintenance Organization

Date Aug. 10, 1978 Report No. 106844 Title

Health: Medicare's Cost Reimbursement Procedures for Home Health Care

Date July 31, 1978 Report No. HRD-78-152 Title

Health: Return on Investment in For-Profit Hospitals

DOCUMENT REESUBE 06837 - [B2227254] [(Return on Investment it For-Profit Hospitals]. HRE-78-152; E-164031(3). July 31, 1978. 8 pp. Report to Jay B. Constantine, Chief, Health Prcfessional Staff, Senate Committee on Finance; by PhiliF A. Bernstein (for Gregory J. Ahart, Director, Human Resources tiv.). Issue Area: Health Programs: Reimbursement Policies and Utilizaticn Controls (1208). Contact: Hum...
Date June 15, 1978 Report No. 095415 Title

Government Operations: GAO Reviews of the Professional Standards Review Program

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY Expected at 9:30 a.m., EST Thursday, June 15, 1978 l\\lil\lMilllllllllllmllllIllllll~ll LM095415 STATEMENT OF GREGORYJ. AHART, DIRECTOR HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND/MEANS U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES " ON GAO REVIEWS OF THE PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS REVIEW PRO...
Date June 15, 1978 Report No. 106274 Title

Government Operations: GAO Reviews of the Professional Standards Review Program

DOCUMEIT RESOlE 06274 - rB1726756] June GAO Reviews of the Profe3sional Standards Review ProgrEa. 15, 1978. 24 pp. + 2 enclosures (2 pp.). Testimony before the Ucuse Committee cn Ways and leans: Oversight Subcommittee; by Gregory J. Ahart, Director, Hunan Resources Div. Contact: Human Resources Div. Organization Concerned: Department of Health, Bducation, and Welfare; Heaith Care Financing Aduinis...
Date June 5, 1978 Report No. HRD-78-116 Title

Income Security: Procedures To Safeguard Social Security Beneficiary Records Can and Should Be Improved

DCCUBENT? ESUME SAb 06218 - [B1586605 @*6 12rlo5J j- Procedures to Safequard Social Securit) Beneficiary Records Can and Sho;uld Be Improved. HRD-78-116; B-164031 (4). June 5, 1978. 28 p,. + 4 appscdics ;13 pp.,.. Report to Rtep. Charles Rose; Rep. Staats, Comptrcl.er General. John E. ross; by Elmer B. Issue Area: Income Security Programs: Erugqza Bonitoring and Administration (1303) Contact: Huma...
Date May 31, 1978 Report No. HRD-78-111 Title

Health: Information on Assignment Rates Under Medicare

DOCUBINT RESUME 05993 - (81526572 (Restricted) [Information on Assignment Rates under Medicare]. HRD-78-111; B-164031(4). May 31, 1978. 2 pp. + enclosure (15 pp.). Report to Rep. John E. Soss, Chairman, House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce: Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee; Rep. Anthony Moffett; by Elmer 8. Staats, Comptroller Gcneral. Issue Area: Health Programs: Reimbursem...
Date April 11, 1978 Report No. HRD-78-104 Title

Health: Review of GHI's Administration of Part B of Medicare in Queens County, New York

DOCOUENT RESUI 05702 lB1166108] (eerte) f tl,ASE( 5 31S Review of GHi's Administration of art of edicare in Queens county, ew York. HBD-78-104; B-164031(4). April 11, 1976e 14 pp. * 2 enclosures (5 pp.). Report to Rep. Benjamin S. Rosenthal; y Phili; A. Bernstein (for Gregory J. Ahart, Director, usen esources Div.). Issue Area: Health Programs (1200). Contact: Human Resources Div. Budget Function:...