Statutory payment increases

Good quality care increases hospital profits under prospective payment

This study shows that, contrary to popular belief, the prospective payment system discourages skimping on medically indicated care. The quality of care on a nationally representative sample of Medicare discharges underwent judgmental review using implicit criteria. The reviewing physicians identified hospitalizations that omitted medically indicated services and diagnoses overlooked because of ...

Statutory or Voluntary

once again that ways and means have got to be found to produce a real economy in public current expenditure. Enormous programmes of building have been sapping our national finances. Th^ serious and backward structural conditions of very many of the hospitals taken over under the National Health Act in 1948, and especially the hospitals for the mentally ill, will and mus* continue to absorb a la...

Statutory Retirement Age and

As societies age, pension reforms become a central issue. One proposition is to extend worklife. However, due to the endogenous depreciation of human capital in many countries the effective retirement age is even below the present statutory retirement age. We analyze this effect in a putty-putty human capital vintage model where the economic retirement age is endogenous. While a higher rate of ...

Unconstitutionally Excessive Statutory Damage Awards

The statutory noise level in South Africa.

Noise legislation in South Africa was introduced in 1974. However, in industry, compliance with the recommended maximum equivalent noise level of 85 dB(A) is poor. The subject of noise exposure is reviewed briefly and a tentative proposal for a temporary raising of the statutory limit is put forward.