After a quarter century of relative plenty, academic medicalcenters find themselves in a serious financial squeeze thatis beginning to compromise their triple mission of teaching,research, and clinical care. This squeeze reflects competitivepressures to reduce costs in a managed-care environment, intensifiedby Medicare cuts mandated in the 1997 Balanced Budget Act.1Teaching hospitals are no longer able to bill at rates thatreflect the extra costs of their academic role traditionallyrepresenting a premium of about 30 percent.2 Most have soughtto make up in patient volume what they have lost in income margins.This survival . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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