Urban Hospitals May Get Extra Look in Health Overhaul
Monday, November 2, 2009 - 14:14
in Health & Medicine
A provision in a House bill would order a group to conduct a study of regional variations in Medicare spending, pitting hospitals in more rural states against those in areas like New York City and Los Angeles.
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