Hospital cost containment and end stage renal disease program : hearings before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session on S. 1391, to establish a transitional system of hospital cost containment by providing for incentives and restraints to contain the rate of increase in hospital revenue, to establish a system of capital allocation designed to encourage communities to avoid the creation of unneeded and duplicative hospital facilities and services, to provide for the publication and disclosure of information useful to the public in making decisions about health care, to provide for the development of permanent reforms in hospital reimbursement designed to provide incentives for the efficient and effective use of hospital resources, and for other purposes : S. 1470, to provide for the return of the administrative and reimbursement procedures currently employed under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and for other purposes : H.R. 8423, to amend titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act to make improvements in the end stage renal disease program presently authorized under section 226 of that act, and for other purposes, October 12, 13, and 21, 1977.