Hospitals' bill clout nets $26 billion gain. (House Medicare Package).

Publication: Medicine & Health

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Under an earlier draft of the Medicare legislative package being developed by House Republican leaders, the American Hospital Association complained that hospitals would lose about $17 billion over 10 years as their reimbursement was held in check to help Congress afford increased Medicare physician payments and a prescription drug benefit. As a result, no Medicare bill made it to the House floor before Memorial Day, as leaders had hoped, and Republican members aggressively lobbied by the industry threatened to hold up...

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