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...thirty years, hopes in this way to wean the teaching hospitals away from the profitable practice of turning out an excess of specialists. Currently, hospitals earn an average of $100,000 for every resident they train, but pay the residents less than half of that, using the rest to bolster their overall finances. Says Bruce Vladeck, administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, which runs the Medicare and Medicaid programs: "Until now Medicare has been giving hospitals an incentive to hire more residents. We need to change that." Even with such a generous specialist detox program, Medicare will save...
...thirty years, hopes in this way to wean the teaching hospitals away from the profitable practice of turning out an excess of specialists. Currently, hospitals earn an average of $100,000 for every resident they train, but pay the residents less than half of that, using the rest to bolster their overall finances. Says Bruce Vladeck, administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, which runs the Medicare and Medicaid programs: "Until now Medicare has been giving hospitals an incentive to hire more residents. We need to change that." Even with such a generous specialist detox program, Medicare will save...
With the new scientific evidence to bolster it, the logic for spending money on early-childhood development programs may seem incontrovertible. But not everyone is convinced. The question of what approaches have worked and will work has not been resolved. Research supports the long-term benefits of older programs that are used as models today, but those studies are criticized because they look at very small samples of children who were given special attention and care...
...phone companies keep phony records every cop is a conspirator, all photos are doctored, cuts on the finger cause amnesia, blood has a travel agent and night golf is popular. Yikes! I wonder if agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder from The X-Files know about this place. JOE BOLSTER Los Angeles...
...effort to bolster minority enrollment, Kennedy School officials said yesterday that the school plans to actively recruit potential students from under-represented ethnic and racial groups...