Policy and Legislation
The Florida Legislature abruptly ended its session three days early on Tuesday, leaving hundreds of bills unrelated to healthcare unfinished.
The U.S. House and Senate are considering trade legislation that would be financed in part by $700 million from extended Medicare sequestration authority -- much to the consternation of the healthcare provider community.
Doctors have called the programs confusing and time-consuming and say they offer little clinical benefit while detracting from their ability to care for patients.
Like other recent proposals for inpatient hospitals and inpatient rehabilitation facilities, payment would be tied to new standards for quality reporting.
Proposal also means 19 hospitals now listed as rural would be converted to urban, losing their 14.9 percent payment adjustment.
Obama administration tells state leaders that failing to expand Medicaid could jeopardize special funding to pay hospitals and doctors for treating the poor.
Bipartisanship that congressional leaders celebrated was a little too much to bear for The Daily Show host.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposes changes to quality reporting, readmission fines and disproportionate share hospital payments.
A decision to take away subsidies could leave millions without insurance.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it expects to include further discussion of the issue in the 2016 prospective payment systems proposal to be published this summer.