"This results in higher reimbursement to the physicians, thus increasing the cost of health care to patients and their insurers."
Hospitals across the country try to code as aggressively as possible, to receive the highest reimbursement a patient's symptoms will allow.
Nursing home beds based at the hospital would be entitled to higher reimbursements.
Under the bill, counties must apply for the higher reimbursements.
Many nursing homes invoked that law to get higher reimbursements.
An evidence-based medicine system might be rated based upon a high incidence of patient improvement, or higher financial reimbursement for care providers.
The two lawmakers did not think it was likely that the county would get a higher reimbursement for programs for teaching handicapped preschoolers.
We would try to offset those cuts and the burden of uncompensated care by seeking higher reimbursement from commercial insurers.
Many for-profit companies are flush with cash from growing profits, a result of higher reimbursements, and surging stock prices.
Doctors, like hospitals, hailed the prospect of higher reimbursement.