NAUH Urges Congress to Support Withdrawal of 340B Regulation
Ask the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to withdraw its proposed regulation to reduce Medicare payments for prescription drugs covered by the section 340B prescription drug discount program. That’s the message in a bipartisan letter being circulated among members [...]
NAUH Urges Medicare to Withdraw 340B Proposal
The National Association of Urban Hospitals has urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to withdraw its proposal to significantly reduce Medicare payments for prescription drugs to hospitals that qualify for the federal section 340B prescription drug discount program. [...]
Don’t Slash Medicare Drug Payments, NAUH Asks CMS
The federal government should withdraw its proposal to drastically reduce Medicare payments for prescription drugs covered by the section 340B prescription drug discount program, NAUH has told the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CMS has proposed a 28 percent [...]
NAUH Urges Senators to Oppose Graham-Cassidy Bill
NAUH has declared its opposition to the Graham-Cassidy proposal to partially repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. In a message to senators, NAUH stated that its opposition is based on the millions of people the bill would leave uninsured, [...]
NAUH Urges CMS to Reconsider Proposed Outpatient Payment Changes
The federal government should not cut in half payments to physicians who care for their Medicare patients in off-campus, provider-based outpatient facilities. It also should reconsider the circumstances under which hospitals can move their off-campus, provider-based hospital outpatient departments, or [...]
MedPAC Comments on Proposed Physician Fee Schedule
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has written to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to convey its views on CMS’s proposed revisions to Medicare physician payment policies for 2018. Among the issues MedPAC addresses in its comment letter are [...]
MedPAC Comments on Proposed Medicare Outpatient Payment Rule
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has weighed in with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on its proposed regulation governing the 2018 hospital outpatient prospective payment system and ambulatory surgical center payment systems and quality reporting programs. Among the [...]
Overutilization of ERs May Not be as Great as Perceived
Far fewer hospital emergency room visits are for medical problems better addressed in other settings, according to a new study. In a review of six years worth of data encompassing 424 million ER visits, researchers found that only 3.3 percent [...]
Leave 340B Alone, CMS Advisory Group Says
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should not significantly reduce Medicare payments for some prescription drugs. Or so says one of CMS’s own advisory panels. The agency’s Advisory Panel on Outpatient Prospective Payment reached this conclusion after listening to [...]
NAUH Comments on Proposed Cut of Medicaid DSH Payments
NAUH has expressed its opposition to a proposed change in how the federal government allocates Medicaid disproportionate share (Medicaid DSH) funding to states. In a formal comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which proposed the change [...]
