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...forestall disaster, the rules were changed in 1983. A patient's ailment is now assigned to one of 470 diagnosis-related groups, which categorize treatment for everything from appendicitis to viral meningitis. Each DRG carries a fixed reimbursement rate based on the cost of treating the average patient. If a hospital can treat a patient for less than the DRG rate, it can keep the change; if the patient's care exceeds the ceiling, the hospital absorbs the loss. In theory, hospitals will lose money on complicated cases and save on simpler ones, and Medicare costs will be brought under...
...committee found that some hospitals post lists of "bad doctors," who allow hospitalized patients to exceed the DRG ceiling, and of "good doctors," who boost hospital profits by discharging their patients quickly. Physicians reported they were under pressure not to admit complicated cases that might prove costly to treat. And, at seven hospitals operated by the Paracelsus Health Care Corp. of Pasadena, Calif., doctors receive bonuses if costs are kept within DRG range. This practice is now under federal investigation...
...Laura Dern) is a coltish California girl trying to cope with her brand-new woman's body and its desperate urgencies. She sasses her angry mom, cruises the mall with her girlfriends and dreams of a boy who will hold her close and sing to her. Enter Arnold Friend (Treat Williams), an older man whose silky threats mesmerize the girl into taking his dare. Arnold is Connie's demon lover, a nightmare image of every male she has ever vamped, and the price he exacts is her realization that 15 is too young to grow...
Though Homer exhibitions up to now have tended to treat his watercolors as ancillary to his oils, mere preparations, it is clear from this one that Homer did not think that way himself and that he did more than any other 19th century American artist to establish watercolor as an important medium in the U.S. In structure and intensity, his best watercolors yield nothing to his larger paintings. Homer had great powers of visual analysis; he could hardly look at a scene without breaking it down and resolving it as structure, and some of his paintings of the Adirondack woods...
...have condemned this war from the start. We tried, in the early days, to do something to halt it, but we received no response. Regrettably, the war has reached a point where it is hard for anyone to say he has a prescription to treat...