Sentence examples for declining reimbursement from inspiring English sources
"With declining reimbursement, increasing costs, malpractice worries and the uncertainty of health reform, the medical profession is under duress today," Mr. Merritt said.
Earlier this year, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced that because of rising costs and declining reimbursement, the city would lose more than 16,000 slots of service, which primarily support after-school care for school-age children.
Thomas H. Hansen, a vice president at Provena Health, a hospital system in Illinois that recently sold six medical office buildings for more than $24 million to the Dasco Companies, a medical real estate company in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., said the sale was fueled in part by declining reimbursement from third parties like Medicare coupled with the rapidly rising cost of technology.
With declining reimbursement on the horizon, some hospitals have already initiated preparation.
It also currently faces challenges with declining reimbursement and providing equal access to care for all Americans.
These include the possibility of declining reimbursement levels, the push to control drug prices and the unpredictability of actions by the Food and Drug Administration.
Doctors, facing declining reimbursements and higher costs, have only minutes to spend with each patient.
The prospect of declining reimbursements has caused residents to drop out of training programs in record numbers.
Because of unrestricted potential liability, many physicians, caught in the squeeze between rising malpractice insurance premiums and declining reimbursements, will eventually be forced out of practice.
According to Camden, high labor costs, stagnant or declining reimbursements from state and federal health care programs, sharply reduced investment income and declining philanthropic support resulted in a $24 million deficit in 2008.
Warren K. Churgin, M.D. Eatontown, N.J. To the Editor: As a physician from a working family, I doubt the average person has much sympathy for physicians' complaints about paperwork, hassles by managed care and declining reimbursements.
