TennCare and Disproportionate Share Hospitals

by Chinyere Ogbonna

The economic recession and the rising healthcare costs experienced by many states in the U.S. is leading us towards the enactment of legislation that will reform the way that healthcare is provided and paid for within the individual states. TennCare was developed in Tennessee as a bold healthcare reform strategy that would simultaneously contain rapidly rising Medicaid costs while expanding insurance for a large, uninsured Tennessee population.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761836462
• ISBN13: 9780761836469
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.4"