May 7, 1999

Teaching Hospitals Ask Congress to Restore Payments

By MARTIN VAN DER WERF

Teaching hospitals face a financial "crisis" and will have to make serious cutbacks unless Congress repeals parts of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, health-care advocates said at a news conference last week.

Jordan Cohen, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the heads of two major teaching hospitals said the law, which trimmed Medicare reimbursements for indigent care, graduate

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