21.   Through the federal cost reporting system, Medicare partly reimburses hospitals and other health care providers for certain expenses.

22.   Under previous contracts, the city reimbursed hospitals for each medical service each inmate received.

23.   Under the old system, the hospitals were reimbursed by diagnosis, getting a set amount, for example, for cardiac surgery and another for a Caesarean birth.

24.   Weld proposed a bill that would have been funded through tax breaks to employers and would have used funds scheduled to reimburse hospitals for treating uninsured patients.

25.   You ought to be reluctant to perjure yourself to see that your hospital gets reimbursed.

26.   Currently, neither Medicare nor most insurance reimburse hospitals for the more expensive blood.