The State - News from Feb. 26, 1986

The release of standard reports comparing health care for Medicare patients at hospitals throughout the state has been indefinitely delayed. Some of the hospital comments on the reports, which were also to be made public, contained confidential information about specific patients and physicians, which cannot be released, according to a spokeswoman for California Medical Review Inc., the San Francisco-based group that monitors the state’s Medicare program for the federal government. A new release date will be announced after discussions with the federal Health Care Financing Administration as to how to handle the situation, the spokeswoman said. The report had been scheduled to be released this week.