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A section of the Social Security Act added. The section provides that payments will not be made under Medicare or Medicaid with respect to certain disapproved capital expenditures determined to be inconsistent with State or local health plan, the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974, requires States participating in the section 1122…

A section of the PHS Act which authorizes formula grants by the Federal government to the States for their unrestricted use in funding State and local health programs and activities. Therefore sometimes called a health revenue sharing program. For some years the annual amount appropriated has been $90 million.  

A section of the Social Security Amendments of 1972, which places a limit for purposes of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement on charges recognized as reasonable. The law recognizes as reasonable those charges which fall within the 75th percentile of all charges for a similar service in a locality. Increases in physicians’ fees allowable for Medicare…

A section of the Social Security Amendments of 1972, which requires the Secretary to establish limits on overall direct or indirect costs which will be recognized as reasonable under Medicare for comparable services in comparable facilities in an area. The Secretary is also permitted to establish maximum acceptable costs in such facilities with respect to…

A section of the Social Security Amendments of 1972, which authorizes the Secretary of HEW to undertake, with respect to Medicare, studies, experiments or demonstration projects on: prospective reimbursement of facilities, ambulatory surgical centers (surgicenters), intermediate care and homemaker services (with respect to the extended care benefit under Medicare); elimination or reduction of the three-day…

A term used by house-staff and others in hospitals to describe work they dislike, usually trivial in nature, paperwork. or work which could be done by anybody else.  

In malpractice, screening panels are used as fact finding bodies during the early stages of a malpractice dispute. There are two basic types of screening panels in use: physicians’ defense panels, which seek to develop the best possible defense for the physician who faces a real or potential malpractice claim; and joint physician and lawyer…

A clinic where an initial assessment of patients seeking care is done to determine what services they need, with what priority, and, sometimes, where treatment of minor problems is done.  

The number, type and intensity or complexity of services provided by a hospital or health program. Scope of services is measured, in a number of quite different ways, so that the capacity and nature of different programs may be compared. A program’s scope of services should reflect, and be adequate to meet, the needs of…

The list of occupations which the Department of Labor considers to be in short supply throughout the United States for purposes of labor certification. AH occupations now listed on schedule A are health occupations, but some health occupations (such as dentists) are not listed.