NAUH Comments on Proposed FY 2015 Medicare Inpatient Regulation: Part 3 of 7
Every year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) publishes in the Federal Register a draft regulation describing how it proposes paying hospitals for the inpatient care they provide to their Medicare patients in the coming fiscal year. The [...]
NAUH Comments on Proposed FY 2015 Medicare Inpatient Regulation: Part 2 of 7
Every year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) publishes in the Federal Register a draft regulation describing how it proposes paying hospitals for the inpatient care they provide to their Medicare patients in the coming fiscal year. The [...]
NAUH Comments on Proposed FY 2015 Medicare Inpatient Regulation: Part 1 of 7
Every year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) publishes in the Federal Register a draft regulation describing how it proposes paying hospitals for the inpatient care they provide to their Medicare patients in the coming fiscal year. The [...]
340B Program Under the Microscope
Federal officials continue to cast a wary eye on a program that gives discounts on prescription drugs to hospitals that care for large numbers of low-income patients. The federal 340B Prescription Drug Program requires drug manufacturers to give discounts to [...]
NAUH Seeks Sponsors for Readmissions Bill
The National Association of Urban Hospitals has asked members of the Senate to co-sponsor the new Hospital Readmissions Program Accuracy and Accountability Bill, which seeks to add a risk-adjustment component to Medicare’s hospital readmissions reduction program. NAUH has long been [...]
Senate Bill Calls for Risk-Adjusting Medicare Readmissions Program
A new bill in the Senate would require Medicare to add a risk-adjustment component to its controversial hospital readmissions reduction program. The Hospital Readmission Program Accuracy and Accountability Act, a bipartisan bill, would compel Medicare to consider the socio-economic status [...]
Stop Hurting Hospitals That Serve the Poor, Congress Tells HHS
Medicare’s hospital readmissions reduction program is unfairly penalizing hospitals that serve especially large numbers of low-income patients, 34 members of Congress have written in a letter to recently appointed Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell and Centers for [...]
MedPAC: Keep Paying More For Medicare Primary Care Services
The federal government should continue paying extra for primary care services provided to Medicare patients, Congress has been told by its chief advisor on Medicare payment policy. According to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), the independent federal agency that [...]
MedPAC Again Calls for Site-Neutral Payments
Medicare should pay for certain medical services on a site-neutral basis and not pay different rates for the same services to inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and skilled nursing facilities. Or so says MedPAC, the independent federal agency charged with advising Congress [...]
One State Sees Major Drop in Uninsured
Are Affordable Care Act reforms putting a dent in the number of uninsured Americans? They certainly are in Minnesota. According to a study by the University of Minnesota’s State Health Access Data Assistance Center, the number of uninsured residents in [...]
