title: Budget battle looms. Clinton uses fraud fines, user fees to pay for programs.
abstract: President Clinton ignited a new money battle for providers last week as he proposed an activist healthcare agenda in his proposal to balance the federal budget in the next fiscal year. In his $1.733 trillion fiscal 1999 spending plan, Clinton proposed that providers and health plans pay $659.2 million in new user fees to fund expanded provider audits, certification surveys and a host of other HCFA activities.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gardner
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D005380:Financing, Government / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005607:Fraud; D006291:Health Policy / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D008484:Medicaid; D006278:Medicare; D014481:United States; D016270:United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality