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Despite record-high hospital profits and record-low uninsured rates in recent years, the hospital industry again says this is not a good time for cuts.

Hospital leaders say its not a good time for cuts to Medicaid funding they agreed to under the Affordable Care Act. They want Congress to delay them.

Hospital leaders say its not a good time for cuts to Medicaid funding they agreed to under the Affordable Care Act. They want Congress to delay them.

Hospital leaders say its not a good time for cuts to Medicaid funding they agreed to under the Affordable Care Act. They want Congress to delay them.

Hospital leaders say its not a good time for cuts to Medicaid funding they agreed to under the Affordable Care Act. They want Congress to delay them.

Acute care hospitals that successfully participate in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting program and are meaningful electronic health record users will get a proposed payment rate increase of 2.8% in 2024, under a proposed rule released Monday. This reflects a projected hospital market basket update of 3%, reduced by a projected 0.2 percentage point productivity

The Medicare Advisory Payment Commission recommends a higher-than-current-law fee-for-service payment update in 2024 for acute care hospitals and positive payment updates for clinicians paid under the physician fee schedule. It recommends reductions in base payment rates for skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies and inpatient rehabilitation facilities. MedPAC gave

As federal funding for the pandemic response dries up, Americans without health insurance risk being left footing the bill for coronavirus tests and treatments.

The Department of Homeland Security has finalized a rule ensuring that noncitizens won't have their legal status affected if they receive health benefits including Medicaid, reversing a previous Trump-era "public charge" regulation. First announced in August 2019, the Trump administration's final rule expanded the programs considered in the federal government's public charge

Providers that don't participate in the 340B program say CMS' plan would lead to unfair overpayments to 340B providers.