Medical libraries, no longer mandated by Medicare, are losing out at budget time.
Hospitals once needed to maintain a medical library to qualify for government reimbursement programs, but the requirement was lifted at the same time that cost constraints from prospective pricing began to squeeze budgets. Now the library is a prime target in cutback campaigns.
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D002017:Budgets / Q000639:trends*; D007992:Libraries, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D006278:Medicare; D014481:United States; D014483:United States Dept. of Health and Human Services