title: CFOs: cost-shift pressures will spur health care policy reform.
abstract: Hospitals are "on the verge of self-destruction" because they are finding it more difficult to shift costs to those few payers who pay full charges, say CFOs. In fact, the inability to continue shifting costs will lead to national health care reform, say members of a panel of CFOs hosted by Hospitals.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Anderson
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003361:Cost Allocation; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000639:trends*; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D006278:Medicare; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms; D013660:Taxes; D014481:United States