one of the most important responsibilities of the board is to appoint the _______, evaluate his or her performance, and remove them if necessary
this is a special type of long-stay hospital
-must meet Medicare's conditions of participation for acute care hospitals and must have an ALOS greater than 25 days
-serve patients who need postacute care but have complex hospitalization
a physician who is in charge of a specific medical specialty in a hospital, such as cardiology
hospitals owned by the federal, state, or local government
-play a significant role in training physicians and other health care professionals
-incur higher utilization in terms of ALOS (highest in fed hospitals)
this act required the conversion of hospital Medicare reimbursement from cost-plus to a prospective payment system (PPS) based on diagnostic related groups (DRGs)
-PPS: hospitals payed fixed amount per admission according to patient's principal diagnosis; hospital keep costs below fixed reimbursement amount to make profit -> incentivizing to minimize patient's length of stay
