Hospitals Urge MedPAC To Rethink Pay Proposals Due To $11B Cut In Fiscal Cliff Law-insidehealthpolicy: Hospitals are appealing to Congress' Medicare payment advisors to rethink draft payment proposals they plan to take up Thursday (Jan. 10), saying the proposals when taken in conjunction with the $11 billion hit to hospitals in the fiscal cliff law's “doc fix” and upcoming sequestration cuts would equate to an unwarranted payment cut across the industry. In a letter to the commissioners, the American Hospital Association and the Federation of American Hospitals say hospitals need much bigger payment updates than called for by the draft recommendations.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Hospitals Urge MedPAC To Rethink Pay Proposals Due To $11B Cut In Fiscal Cliff Law
Hospitals Urge MedPAC To Rethink Pay Proposals Due To $11B Cut In Fiscal Cliff Law-insidehealthpolicy: Hospitals are appealing to Congress' Medicare payment advisors to rethink draft payment proposals they plan to take up Thursday (Jan. 10), saying the proposals when taken in conjunction with the $11 billion hit to hospitals in the fiscal cliff law's “doc fix” and upcoming sequestration cuts would equate to an unwarranted payment cut across the industry. In a letter to the commissioners, the American Hospital Association and the Federation of American Hospitals say hospitals need much bigger payment updates than called for by the draft recommendations.
