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To the Editor: The purpose of this letter is to clarify a misunderstanding in our editorial on hospitals' high administrative costs (March 13 issue).¹ We quoted the 1996 report of the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (ProPAC), which stated that the improved performance of for-profit hospitals "resulted primarily from proprietary hospitals having lower per-case costs after several years of slower cost growth." ² However, there was an endnote to this statement explaining that the conclusion was based on an unpublished study by ProPAC in which hospital costs per case were adjusted according to the teaching status of the hospitals. In fact, we . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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