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TITLE: Nursing Home Bankruptcies: What Caused Them

CIS-NO: 2001-S141-8
SOURCE: Committee on Aging, Special. Senate
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 106-852
DATE: Sept. 5, 2000
LENGTH: iii+78 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-2
ITEM-NO: 1009-B-01; 1009-C-01
SUDOC: Y4.AG4:S.HRG.106-852
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477 (Full Text Reproductions)
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-26509-1.

SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-35. Hearing to review implications of Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 medicare cost control provisions for skilled nursing facilities (SNF), in light of recent nursing home bankruptcies.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Medicare payment policy changes, impact on skilled nursing facilities

DESCRIPTORS:
    MEDICARE; GOVERNMENT SPENDING; MEDICAL ECONOMICS; MEDICAL REGULATION; HOSPITALS AND NURSING HOMES; NURSES AND NURSING; BANKRUPTCY; BALANCED BUDGET ACT

01-S141-8 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Sept. 5, 2000 p. 4-78

WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   DUMMIT, LAURA A. (Associate Director, Health Financing and Public Health Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, GAO)
   RANSOM, JOHN (Director, Healthcare Research, Raymond James & Associates)
   ROADMAN, CHARLES H., II (Dr.) (President and CEO, American Health Care Association)
   GROB, GEORGE F. (Deputy Inspector General, Evaluation and Inspections, HHS)
   PELOVITZ, STEVEN A. (Director, Survey and Certification Group, Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA))

STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Summary of GAO findings on nursing home bankruptcies, citing adequacy of aggregate medicare payments for SNF coverage; differing views on impact of BBA implementation on SNF providers, with recommendations; issues relating to implementation of BBA medicare reform provisions.
   Review of HCFA efforts to monitor impact of BBA medicare cost control requirements to ensure that beneficiary access to covered services is maintained; issues related to recent nursing home bankruptcies.

CONTENT NOTATION:
   Medicare payment policy changes, impact on skilled nursing facilities

TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   AMERICAN HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION; GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE; OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL, HHS; HEALTH CARE FINANCING ADMINISTRATION

LOAD-DATE: August 2, 2001