Susan Morse
Many Pfizer/BioNTech sites are in diverse communities that have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19.
Among other provisions, the bill extends the 5% advanced APM bonus for an additional six years and modifies thresholds to achieve the bonus.
The plans do not comply with the comprehensive benefits of the Affordable Care Act.
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.