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...
CBO: Senate ACA Replace Bill Has Huge Negative Impact on Medicaid Spending in Future Years Perhaps making Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's job of passing an ACA repeal and replace bill even more challenging, the Congressional Budget Office late last week released an analysis showing Medicaid...
Moody’s: Hospital Margins Generally Positive Hospital margins are generally positive, according to a new report from Moody’s. The industry’s positive margin in 2016 was 5.7 percent, a slight decline from 6.1 percent in 2015. Margins and liquidity “remain in-line with historical levels while demand trends remain...
May 15, 2017 CMS: 806,000 Clinicians NOT Required to Participate in MIPS About two-thirds of Medicare clinicians won’t have to participate in MACRA’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System, CMS said last week. CMS planned to tell doctors via letter if they had to comply with the first-year program...
April 10, 2017 1,000 Hospitals Receive Healthgrades Patient Experience and Patient Safety Awards Healthgrades has named nearly 1,000 hospitals to its 2017 Outstanding Patient Experience Award and Patient Safety Excellence Award lists. The awards, which the group gives out each year, are meant to highlight U.S. facilities...
Final CMS Rule Cuts Medicaid DSH; High DSH Hospitals Could Lose Millions CMS has pushed through a final rule that cuts the amount of supplemental pay that hospitals receive to account for Medicare and third-party payments when calculating how much hospitals spend on uncompensated care and...
Health Care Repeal, Replace Goes Down; GOP Moves On; What’s Next? In a stunning move Friday, the House GOP leadership pulled its American Health Care Act repeal and replace legislation from a scheduled vote because it appeared the votes to pass the legislation were not there....
House GOP Health Care Showdown on Thursday The House is expected to vote Thursday on the GOP ‘repeal and replace’ legislation, according to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI). It is still uncertain whether there are enough votes to pass the legislation, the American * Health Care Act....