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We need real long-term solutions to strengthen our nation's health care system, not arbitrary cuts that undermine hospitals' ability to care. Our patients and communities depend on us, and the care we provide, to be there... today and tomorrow.
Changes that should be avoided include:
- cuts to payments for evaluation and management services provided in outpatient department
- reductions to payments for graduate medical education
- additional across-the-board cuts to Medicare inpatient hospital rates through the use of coding adjustments
- restrictions on state provider assessments
- payment reductions to rural hospital programs, including critical access hospitals
- reductions in payments to hospitals for assistance to low-income Medicare beneficiaries (bad debt)
- Burdensome requirements for supervision of hospital outpatient therapeutic services.
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