NASH Asks Congress to Help Hospitals Keep Provider Relief Fund Grants
Safety-net hospitals could lose some or all of their CARES Act Provider Relief Fund grant money and the National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals is asking members of Congress to intervene to prevent it. At issue are financial reporting requirements that [...]
MedPAC Meets
Last week the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission met in Washington, D.C. to discuss a number of Medicare payment issues. MedPAC’s proposed Medicare 2021 payment recommendations dominated the December agenda, including: hospital inpatient and outpatient payments ambulatory surgical center payments physician [...]
Coronavirus Update for Thursday, December 10
The following is the latest COVID-19 information from the federal government as 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 10. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS has updated its FAQs for Medicare fee-for-service billing with 20 new or updated questions, all [...]
GAO: CMS Should Pay More Attention to States’ Financing of Medicaid
The federal government does not adequately monitor how states finance their Medicaid programs. It also lacks a sufficiently clear understanding of how they pay providers of Medicaid-covered services. These are among the conclusions in a new study on Medicaid financing [...]
NASH Asks Congress for COVID-19 Aid
NASH has written to Congress to request additional COVID-19 legislation between now and the end of the year to help private safety-net hospitals respond to the health care and financial challenges posed by the pandemic. In its letter, NASH asked [...]
Coronavirus Update for Tuesday, December 9
The following is the latest COVID-19 information from the federal government as 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, December 8. Provider Relief Fund HHS announced that the Provider Relief Fund will distribute $523 million in second-round performance payments to 9248 nursing homes [...]
NASH Statement on Nomination of Xavier Becerra
Statement of the National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals on the Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals is extremely pleased with President-elect Biden’s nomination of [...]
Coronavirus Update for Friday, December 4
The following is the latest COVID-19 information from the federal governments as of 2:45 p.m. on Friday, December 4. NASH Advocacy NASH has written to Congress to request additional COVID-19 legislation between now and the end of the year. NASH [...]
Coronavirus Update for Wednesday, December 2
The following is the latest COVID-19 information from the federal government as of 2:45 p.m. on Wednesday, December 2. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS has announced the introduction of two new Medicare condition codes that will take effect [...]
Schumer: Block Medicaid DSH Cuts
Congress should block scheduled Medicaid DSH cuts. That’s the message Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer sent during a recent appearance in upstate New York. “At a time when we need to be supporting our hospitals with robust funding to help [...]
