A Pennsylvania House committee voted unanimously to advance a bill proposing to revise a policy long bemoaned by ambulance providers that would improve mileage reimbursement for patient transports.
On Jan. 30, 2023, President Joe Biden announced that the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) will end May 11, 2023. Under the PHE, the federal government implemented a range of modifications and waivers impacting Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance requirements, as well as numerous other programs, to provide relief to healthcare providers.
In nearly 17 years as a physician and executive at Providence Health and Services and another decade-plus before that at Kaiser Permanente, Bernie Klein says he has never seen a set of fiscal challenges as deep and difficult as what Providence – and other – hospitals face today in Southern California.
How can it be that healthcare in the U.S. is so expensive — hey, remember when Obamacare and moving to electronic health records were supposed to fix all that? — while at the same time many hospitals claim they are in dire straits?
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied an appeal by the Nueces County Hospital District (NCHS) seeking reimbursement for a $503,000 study looking at the overall health of the county, as well as COVID-19's impact on the community.
Hospitals and nursing homes in New York could receive a higher reimbursement rate under a tentative agreement in the state budget.
But a broader deal for a state spending plan was not finalized on Thursday, and state lawmakers have left Albany for the next several days as issues addressing climate change are yet to be locked down.