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U.S. senators on Tuesday confirmed a veteran Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP adviser to a top post at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, bringing President Joe Biden one step closer to rounding out his health policy leadership.
(Photo by Alex Wong\Getty Images) The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has updated the Medicare fee-for-service payment rates and policies for inpatient hospitals and long-term care hospitals for 2022. Before taking into account Medicare disproportionate share hospital payments and Medicare uncompensated care payments, the proposed increase in operating payment rates, increases in capital payments, increases in payments for new medical technologies, increases in payments due to implementation of the imputed floor and other proposed changes will increase hospital payments in FY 20...
(Photo courtesy joe daniel price/Getty Images) In a vote of 384-38, the House on Tuesday passed a bill that eliminates the 2% cut to Medicare payments until the end of 2021. However, the bill proposes to offset the change by increasing the sequester cuts in 2030. WHY THIS MATTERS The cuts were triggered by a federal budget sequestration. Hospitals, physicians and other providers protested the 2% cuts as coming at a time when they were struggling financially and clinically to handle the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill also makes several technical changes to the rural health clinic provisions that...
Apr 14, 2021 11:37am The House passed legislation on Tuesday to extend a moratorium for the rest of the year to ensure that a 2% cut to Medicare payments doesn't go back into effect. (Stephen Emlund/Getty Images)(Stephen Emlund / GettyImages) The House overwhelmingly passed legislation to pause cuts to Medicare payments to help providers still facing financial challenges due to COVID-19. The House passed the legislation 384-38 on Tuesday that pauses a 2% cut on Medicare payments through the rest of the year. The cuts, created originally under the sequester, were paused by Congress last year d...
Photo by Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images Hospital groups are applauding President Joe Biden's executive order that directs federal agencies to review Trump-era immigration policies that affect immigrants' access to healthcare. The order, signed on Tuesday, requires a "top-to-bottom review" of the public charge rule that allows the federal government to deny entry into the country or citizenship based on the receipt of public benefits such as Medicaid. It also rescinds a memorandum requiring family sponsors to repay the government if relatives receive public benefits. The action received p...