The Nation - News from Nov. 13, 1985
A Reagan Administration official, defending Medicare’s payment system, said there is no evidence that elderly patients have been prematurely discharged from hospitals in a systematic manner. C. McClain Haddow of the Health Care Financing Administration differed with reports of thousands of Medicare patients being prematurely released from hospitals because of the health program’s cost-containment system. Haddow said that out of 8.6 million people released from hospitals, only 4,500 cases involved a “quality problem,” including premature discharge.
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