Hospital Cost Containment Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Hospital Cost Containment Act - Title I: Establishment of State Commissions on Hospital Budgets - Requires each State desiring to conduct a hospital cost containment plan to submit such a plan to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Directs the Secretary to approve the State plan if it includes: (1) a provision establishing a commission on hospital budgets to supervise the administration of the plan; and (2) a provision establishing an advisory council to review and comment on the operation of the commission and to act on appeals of commission decisions. Directs the Secretary to reimburse a State for 80 percent of the amounts expended for the development and administration of the State's commission on hospital budgets and its advisory council. Declares any State which on July 1, 1977, had in effect a satisfactory plan to control hospital costs ineligible for a start-up grant. Directs each State commission on hospital budgets to file with the Secretary a report of the average reimbursement per admission approved by the commission for the various categories of health care institutions under the State plan. Directs the Secretary to disapprove the plan of any State that is …