Correspondence from Simmons to Sayers Re: HEW Analyses

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January 23, 1978

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Impact area
- Economic Justice
Topic
- Healthcare
LDF Attorneys
Cooperating Attorneys
Organizations
Matter
- Hatcher v. Methodist Hospital of Gary, Inc.
Case
- Hatcher v. Methodist Hospital of Gary, Inc.
U.S. state
- Indiana
Collection
- Case Files
Taxonomy
Identifier
- 393e2200-5584-f111-ab0f-7c1e527d528a

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     [||8099c286-fd4f-4d4a-a6fb-f0a97285c46c||] January 23, 1978 

Bruce E. Sayers, Esq. 

Hodges, Davis, Gruenberg, 

Compton & Sayers 

5525 Broadway 

Merrillville, Ind. 46410 

Re: Hatcher v. Methodist Hospital of 
Gary, Inc., et al., No. H 77-154 
  

Dear Bruce: 

Pursuant to the Court's order of January 12, 

1978, this letter is to advise you of analyses 
plaintiffs and HEW wish to run on all requested com- 
puter tapes as of the present time. Plaintiffs reserve 

the right to supplement the following list with 

requests for additional analyses at a later time. 

Determine impact of physician status/ 
specialty to admission and diagnosis 

Determine correlation of patients’ 
residence and race with admitting or 

referring physician 

Determine impact of patients‘ residence 
and race on method of payment 

Determine the accessibility of programs 
to racially identifiable handicapped 

Determine the correlation between handi- 

capped status and method of payment 

Determine correlation of clinic patients’ 
race, residence and clinic service 
attended 

  

10 COLUMBUS CIRCLE 586-8397 

   



Bruce E. Suyers, Esq. 

Page 2 

January 23, 1978 

Determine correlation between clinic patients’ 

handicapped status, race, residence and clinic 
services attended 

Determine correlation between clinic patients’ 
race, residence, handicapped status and post 

clinical disposition 

Determine correlation between clinic patients! 
race, residence, handicapped status and method 
of payment 

Determine correlation of clinic patients’ 

race and residence to referring or contact 

physician 

Determine correlation between clinic patients’ 

race, residence, age and post clinical dispo- 

sition : 

Determine impact of ER, patients' residence, 

race and method of payment to disposition 

Determine impact of ER patients’ race, 

residence and handicapped status to post ER 

disposition. 

Determine correlation between ER patients® 
race, residence, referring or contact physi- 

cian and post ER disposition 

Determine correlation between ancillary 
services and private out patient's race 

residence 
  

Determine impact of patients' residence 
method” of payment to ancillary service 

received 

  

10 COLUMBUS CIRCLE 586-8397 

   



Bruce E. Sayers, Esq. 

Page 3 

January 23, 1978 

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Determine correlation between patients’ 

race, residence, ancillary services 
received and physician 

Determine correlation of specialized 
services patients' race, residence and 

service received 

Determine correlation between specialized 

services patient's handicapped status, 
residence, race and services received 

Determine correlation between specialized 

service patients' race, residence, handi=- 

capped status and method of payment 

Determine correlation of specialized ser- 
vice patients' race, residence to referring 

or contact physician 

Determine correlation between specialized 
service patients' race, residence, age and 

post service disposition 

Sincerely, 

Brent -E,., Simmons 

Phil McNagny, Jr. 

  

10 COLUMBUS CIRCLE 586-8397 [||8099c286-fd4f-4d4a-a6fb-f0a97285c46c||]

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