The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission — MedPAC — has added 2011 data to its annual trend chart on the number of Medicare-certified acute care hospitals that have opened or closed annually since 2000:
Source: Chart 6-1. Annual changes in number of acute care hospitals participating in the Medicare program, 2000-2011. In: Health care spending and the Medicare program: a data book. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, June 2013, p. 61. http://www.medpac.gov/chapters/Jun13DataBookSec6.pdf
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