Medicare
The AHA supports the cautious exploration of a site-neutral payment policy that applies exclusively to patients who are clinically similar and can safely be treated in either setting.
Passed by the Senate on March 31, President Obama is expected to sign into law the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA).
We support CMS’s goal for Medicare providers and suppliers to have comprehensive emergency preparedness plans and generally think that CMS has chosen the correct framework for the proposed Conditions of Participation (CoPs) and Conditions for Coverage (CfCs).
Rick Pollack urges President Obama to protect the health care promised to program beneficiaries in your fiscal year (FY) 2015 Federal Budget by not including further reductions in payments for hospital services provided to seniors and the disabled under Medicare.