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Friday, February 20, 2004"The Bush administration encouraged hospitals on Thursday to give discounts to uninsured patients and to financially needy Medicare beneficiaries. Such discounts are permissible under federal fraud and abuse laws, the government said, in a clarification requested by the hospital industry. ...Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, explained the administration's position in a letter to the American Hospital Association. 'Hospitals can provide discounts to uninsured and underinsured patients who cannot afford their hospital bills and to Medicare beneficiaries who cannot afford their Medicare cost-sharing obligations,' Mr. Thompson said. 'Nothing in the Medicare rules or regulations prohibits such discounts.' posted by Sydney on 2/20/2004 08:41:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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