Can GURP help indebted medical research centers?
Alan Dove1 New York How to turn around the financial status of several US teaching hospitals and their research programs that have fallen deeply into debt as a result of changes made to Medicare reimbursement rules under the 1997 Balanced Budget Act was a major subject of discussion at the last in a series of hearings on government–university partnerships held at Columbia University in New York.In addition to lobbying Congress, administrators from medical research centers have been arguing their case as part of President Clinton’s Government–University Research Partnership (GURP) initiative, which is intended to draw up a set of guidelines aimed at informing future legislative and regulatory decisions affecting government-funded research. To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
