August 7, 2017 2,573 Hospitals Will See Payment Cuts in October Because of Medicare Readmits CMS will penalize 2,573 hospitals for having too many Medicare patients readmitted within 30 days, according to federal data released last week. Starting in October, the federal government will cut those hospitals’ payments by as...
Senate Will Proceed, or Not, on ObamaCare Repeal This Week; CBO Has New Analyses This is expected to be the week of reckoning for the Senate and the Affordable Care Act. Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says he is moving forward and the first key...
Hospital Funding Streams Under Assault on Many Fronts From newly proposed CMS inpatient and outpatient rules to ACA repeal, replace legislation in the Senate and House to the Trump Administration's proposed FY18 budget that would cut Medicaid by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next...
Senate May Be Moving to Plan B on Health Care Congress gets back to work in Washington this week, but it appears the Senate is no closer to a deal on its health care reform legislation than before the week-long recess. Here's a summary of where...