Medicare: Flawed Data Add Millions to Teaching Hospital Payments
Abstract
Medicare is a $100-billion federal health insurance program for the elderly and disabled authorized by Title XVIII of the Social Security Act. The program provides two basic forms of protection-hospital insurance and supplemental medical insurance. Hospital insurance expenditures are for inpatient hospital services provided to Medicare beneficiaries. These expenditures include payments to all hospitals for their operating costs and capital costs, as well as payments to about 1,200 teaching hospitals for the direct and indirect cost of providing graduate medical education in conjunction with patient care.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 04, 1991
- Accession Number
- AD1176859
Entities
People
- Ralph V. Carlone
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office