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Beacon Light: Fall 1982, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Profile on the various ways patients pay for care. Pg. 5
• Comparison on the costs of the St. Cloud Hospital vs other hospital's. Pg. 6
• Overview on the efforts of physicians to reduce the cost of care. Pg. 8
• Efforts by the hospital to assist individuals in paying for services. Pg. 9
• Critique of the use of competition to reduce healthcare costs. Pg. 10
• Article arguing that the hospital expansion plan would not lead to increase costs to patients. Pg. 12.
• Using outpatient services to lower expenses. Pg. 16.
• How group purchasing could lower costs. Pg. 18
• Examination of the …