New infographic highlights how site-neutral payment policies threaten patient access to essential services
A new AHA infographic shows how legislation that would impose billions of dollars in additional site-neutral payment reductions to services provided in off-campus hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) fails to account for the fundamental differences between HOPDs and other ambulatory care sites, would exacerbate Medicare’s chronic failure to cover the cost of care and jeopardize beneficiary access to essential care and services. LEARN MORE
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