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Article Published: December 21, 2024

Protect Medicaid DSH, Medicare Physician Payments, and Medicare Outpatient Departments in New Continuing Resolution, ASH Asks Congress

With Congress negotiating a new continuing resolution to fund the [...]

Joseph Steinbock2024-12-10T10:20:52-05:00December 10, 2024|community safety-net hospitals, Medicaid disproportionate share, Medicaid DSH, Medicare regulations|

Federal Health Policy Update for March 7

The following is the latest health policy news from the [...]

Joseph Steinbock2024-03-07T16:37:52-05:00March 7, 2024|Alternative payment models, MACPAC, Medicaid, Medicaid disproportionate share, Medicaid DSH, Medicaid regulations, Medicare, Medicare regulations, MedPAC|

Hospitals Rally Against Medicare Site-Neutral Payments

A proposal to save Medicare nearly $4 billion over a [...]

Joseph Steinbock2024-02-15T08:58:20-05:00February 16, 2024|Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals, ASH, community safety-net hospitals, Medicare|

Delay DSH Cuts and Reject Site-Neutral Payments, ASH Asks Congress

Congress should reject site-neutral Medicare outpatient payments and delay scheduled [...]

Joseph Steinbock2023-12-07T14:52:01-05:00December 11, 2023|Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals, ASH, community safety-net hospitals, Medicaid disproportionate share, Medicaid DSH, Medicare|

ASH Urges House to Reject Site-Neutral Medicare Outpatient Payments

Introducing site-neutral Medicare outpatient payments would jeopardize access to care [...]

Joseph Steinbock2023-09-20T08:54:20-04:00September 20, 2023|Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals, ASH, community safety-net hospitals, Medicaid disproportionate share, Medicare, Medicare regulations|

ASH Asks House Leaders to Withdraw Site-Neutral Payments Proposal for Safety-Net Hospitals

Site-neutral Medicare outpatient payments would hinder access to care in [...]

Joseph Steinbock2023-09-19T14:40:40-04:00September 18, 2023|Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals, ASH, community safety-net hospitals, Medicare, Medicare regulations|

NASH Unveils 2020 Advocacy Agenda

The National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals has published its 2020 [...]

Joseph Steinbock2020-02-05T06:00:58-05:00February 5, 2020|340b, Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Medicaid disproportionate share, Medicaid DSH, Medicaid regulations, Medicare, Medicare disproportionate share, Medicare DSH, Medicare regulations, NASH, National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals, private safety-net hospitals, public charge regulation, public charge regulation and medicaid, surprise medical bills|

Good News and Bad for Hospitals on Outpatient Payments

A federal court has provided relief to hospitals that saw [...]

Joseph Steinbock2019-12-18T06:00:51-05:00December 18, 2019|Medicare, Medicare regulations|

Court Upholds Delay of Medicare Site-Neutral Payment Cut

Medicare cannot proceed with its plan to pay for outpatient [...]

Joseph Steinbock2019-10-23T06:00:54-04:00October 23, 2019|Medicare, Medicare regulations, NASH, National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals|

Court Halts Medicare Site-Neutral Payment Changes

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services did not have [...]

Joseph Steinbock2019-09-19T06:00:26-04:00September 19, 2019|Medicare, Medicare regulations, NASH, private safety-net hospitals|