Judge Trevor McFadden of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued a decision holding that CMS miscalculated the Medicare reimbursement owed to five plaintiff hospitals for the costs associated with their nursing and allied health (NAH) educational programs. The plaintiffs, all hospitals with reputable NAH programs, alleged that CMS ignored its own regulation in calculating their NAH payments. The Court agreed stating, “The hospitals are right, and it is not even close.”
University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora provided $10 million in uncompensated care in just 3 months. UCHealth needs more money and support to keep responding to the surge in migrants arriving in metro Denver, the health system’s leaders are warning after University of Colorado Hospital provided $10 million in uncompensated care in just three months. UCHealth estimated its other hospitals provided about $7 million in uncompensated care to people it identified as likely migrants between November and January, on top of the $10 million provided at the University of Colorado Hospital campus in Aurora.
They called for the governor to add $6.8 billion to her state budget over the next four years to close the Medicaid funding gap. Providers and health care workers alike blamed long waits for emergency room visits, a lack of nursing home beds and long delays to see specialists on the shortfall created by forcing hospitals and nursing homes to fill the 30% gap in funding they must absorb for every Medicaid patient every day.
Under the reforms, Maine hospitals would be taxed at a higher rate. It may sound counter-intuitive, but those higher taxes would allow the state to draw more federal dollars to raise reimbursement rates and give many hospitals an overall boost. But not for York Hospital, says President and CEO Patrick Taylor. Taylor says York Hospital would have to pay an additional $2.4 million each year in taxes.