title: Hospitals out in the cold. Plan to freeze Medicare marketbasket update in 1998 is unfair and unnecessary.
authors.affiliation: Federation of American Health Systems, USA.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Scully
mesh_terms: D004469:Economics, Hospital / Q000145:classification / Q000639:trends*; D007250:Inflation, Economic; D016344:Medicare Part A / Q000639:trends*; D011444:Prospective Payment Assessment Commission; D011445:Prospective Payment System / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States