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Article: COMMUNITY HOSPITALS SEEK MILLIONS MORE IN AID
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 21, 2000
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The often-repeated assertion that Massachusetts has the world's
costliest hospitals is a myth, executives of the state's community
hospitals assert in an analysis to be released tomorrow.
The community hospitals' study, previewed last week for hospital
executives and legislators, is designed to be the centerpiece in an
upcoming legislative campaign to win hundreds of millions of dollars
in additional payments for community hospitals.
The average cost of a stay in Massachusetts' five-dozen community
hospitals, the analysis found, is 15 percent less than the national
average and 19 percent less than in Mississippi, when differences in
wages and patients' sickness levels are taken into account. ...