Health systems are pushing back against proposals to change reimbursement rates for hospital outpatient departments.
In recent years, some advocates have said Medicare could save billions by moving to “site-neutral” policies, which would mean hospital outpatient departments and physicians offices would be reimbursed at the same rate.
A Lewis and Clark County District judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the state from enacting a rule that adds more restrictions to Medicaid patients who seek an abortion in Montana.
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?