Word: pieper
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...large that no one should think that to meet that price we could use a catheter that costs less or a lower-priced catheter to begin with. There is an impact on people. We'll have to change the way we work and reduce our payroll costs," Pieper says...
...Pieper says political reasons and the hospitals' relative lack of lobbying power have contributed to the new cost burdens...
...Hospitals are just one lobbying segment, and the requirement in Washington is to get the job done with the least amount of voter rebellion," says Pieper. "In this particular case, hospitals represent a somewhat vulnerable target...
...Pieper says reducing inflationary payments by holding them to specific, targets, so-called market basket reduction, spreads the economic sacrifice evenly among all hospitals, but that this part of the Medicare reform legislation only accounts for 25 percent of the savings...
...does the other 75 percent fall on hospitals?" Pieper asks. "There are only a couple of hundred major teaching institutions in the country. Once again, the political ability of that group to complain are small compared to other groups, so it is a source of money that is very focused and harmful to that particular segment. I don't think the strategy is an accident...