Susan Morse
The loss of hospital revenue due to the ruling is estimated at $800 million for 2020.
Halvorson envisions an integrated system which unites healthcare payment, improvement and racial and economic equity.
Currently, if grandfathered plans violate pricing rules, they lose their grandfathered status.
Approximately $115 billion of the $175 billion approved by Congress has been allocated.
CMS Administrator Seema Verma: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services needs help from Congress to make temporary flexibilities permanent.
The full-service doctor's offices will be in 30 U.S. markets, with the intent to expand.
The AHA is asking Congress for financial support with other relief in regulatory measures, the biggest being the use of telehealth.
The groups said the rule would pose a burden to hospitals and health systems responding to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
The proposed changes would encourage the development of certain new and innovative home dialysis machines, CMS says.
The insurer will provide an additional $6 million in financial support to independent primary care physicians and community health centers.