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              United States General Accounting Office

                         Washington, D.C.

                                       FOR RELEASE  ON DELIVERY
                                       Expected  at 10:00 AM. EDT
                                       Tuesday, May  14, 1985

                           STATEMENT OF

               MICHAEL ZIMMERMAN, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

                     HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION

                            BEFORE THE

                    COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

                    SUBCOMMITTEE  ON HEALTH

              UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES       |

                                ON                         |

                  MEDICARE PAYMENTS TO HOSPITALS               126949


Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee:

     We are pleased to be here  today to discuss two issues

related to Medicare reimbursement to nospitals*

     (1) The impact of the Health Care  Financing

         4aninistration's  (tCFA's) use of unaudited hospital

         cost reports in establishing  the 'Prospective Payment

         System (PPS) payment rates.

     (2) The Return on Equity payments  to proprietary

         nospitals.

     The information presented  in this testimony is a composite

of information from our past reports and  testimony, as well as

trom our ongoing assignments.  The  specific scope of our work,

as it relates to the two nanor  issues, dill be detailed further

as we discuss each issue.

                             (03 -C

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