Medicare & Medicaid
The loss of hospital revenue due to the ruling is estimated at $800 million for 2020.
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.
Hispanics, Asian Americans and Native Americans are the groups most consistently misclassified, the data shows.
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.
It will expand access to its Medicare Advantage, individual and family-plan products, and to add fully-insured small business plans.
The reduction is linked to a federal court ruling that established annual deadline-based targets.