PMID: 9558780Apr 29, 1998Paper

Deconstructing the Columbia/HCA investigation

Health Affairs
J D Kleinke

Abstract

Every issue raised by the current investigation into the business practices of Columbia/HCA serves as a signpost for the progress and problems inherent in market-driven health care reform. Actions against Columbia/HCA by regulators reveal deeply rooted resistance to the profit-motivated reforms embodied in the company's philosophy: the public's reluctance to accept necessary reductions in excess hospital capacity; the legal and cultural obstacles to the overdue alignment of physician and hospital economic interests; and the myriad reimbursement and accounting problems involved in the vertical integration of health care delivery. The investigation also underscores the antiquation of the reimbursement mechanisms and control systems in place for financing the delivery of care to Medicare beneficiaries.

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