by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 7, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
A collection of nine hospital groups wrote to congressional leadership Monday calling for action to stave off $8 billion in cuts to Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments that could start October 1. While Congress has traditionally delayed the cuts,...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 1, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
A new white paper that has yet to be peer-reviewed makes a case for the removal of restrictions on physician-owned hospitals (POH), stating that removing the POH ban would allow physicians to invest and innovate in the hospitals where they apply their expertise every...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 27, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Fourteen rural-state senators are calling on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to extend a payment policy that increases payments to hospitals in areas with lower overall wages, which is set to expire at the end of the government’s 2023 fiscal year. The...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 24, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
A new Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) analysis is the latest to sound alarms over rural hospitals’ finances in the coming year, especially if those hospitals are operating in the 11 states that haven’t opted to expand Medicaid. KFF found median operating margins...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 23, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) leaders say the agency has handed out nearly 500 warnings to hospitals falling short on price transparency as of January and plans to streamline enforcement and standardize hospital reporting requirements. Enforcement...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 16, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Workforce hurdles such as personnel shortages were the top headache for community hospital CEOs in 2022, outweighing the longtime go-to of financial issues for a second consecutive year in the American College of Healthcare Executives’ latest annual survey. The...
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