NASH Endorses Surprise Medical Bills Legislation
The National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals has endorsed the Consumer Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills Act of 2020, surprise medical bills legislation developed by the House Ways and Means Committee. In a letter to the committee’s chairman and ranking member, [...]
NASH Raises Concerns About Proposed Budget in News Release
Medicare and Medicaid cuts detailed in the administration’s proposed FY 2021 budget could be harmful to private safety-net hospitals, the National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals declared in a news release issued in response to that proposed budget. Among those cuts: [...]
Health Care Groups Rebel Against Proposed Federal Regulation, Program
The administration’s proposed Medicaid fiscal accountability regulation and its guidance encouraging states to implement Medicaid block grants have incurred widespread opposition among a variety of health care groups. The Medicaid fiscal accountability regulation would, if adopted, impose new restrictions on [...]
Health Care Groups Rebel Against Proposed Federal Regulation, Program
The administration’s proposed Medicaid fiscal accountability regulation and its guidance encouraging states to implement Medicaid block grants has incurred widespread opposition among a variety of health care groups. The Medicaid fiscal accountability regulation would, if adopted, impose new restrictions on [...]
Hundreds of Hospitals Penalized for Medical Mistakes
786 hospitals will see their Medicare payments slashed one percent for a year because of their performance under Medicare’s hospital-acquired conditions reduction program. That program penalizes the 25 percent of hospitals with the highest rate of patient safety problems, such [...]
Implications of Medicaid Block Grants
States will be able to pursue new Medicaid block grants under guidance recently sent by federal regulators to state Medicaid directors. But what does that mean? In a new article, the Commonwealth Fund examines how the Centers for Medicare & [...]
Not Surprisingly, Higher Medicaid Rates Improve Access
Higher Medicaid payments for substance abuse disorder treatment lead to better access to such treatment, a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office has concluded. According to the study, which focused on six states, State officials and SUD [substance [...]
NASH Unveils 2020 Advocacy Agenda
The National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals has published its 2020 advocacy agenda. To advance the interests of private safety-net hospitals, in the coming year NASH will: Continue to address the major policy challenges of 2019 that had not been resolved [...]
NASH Urges CMS to Withdraw Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation
CMS should withdraw its proposed Medicaid fiscal accountability regulation, NASH wrote in formal comments in response to the proposed regulation. In its comment letter, the National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals wrote that While NASH supports greater transparency in Medicaid, that [...]
CMS Introduces New Approach to Medicaid Block Grants
States would be able to convert part of their Medicaid programs into block grants under a new program introduced by the federal government. The program, which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services calls “Healthy Adult Opportunity,” would encompass services [...]
