Medicare
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requires hospitals to meet specified Conditions of Participation (CoPs) in order to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
We are deeply disappointed that CMS has proposed new coding cuts in the proposed IPPS rule which results in real payment reductions for hospital services provided to Medicare beneficiaries. CMS continues to use outdated data and a flawed methodology to put into place these cuts.
On April 11, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sent Congress a plan for reforming Medicare's hospital wage index, as required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
On February 14, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule implementing a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that requires a health care provider or supplier that received an overpayment from the Medicare program to report and return the…
While we support ensuring that physicians will not see their Medicare payments reduced, we are extremely disappointed that once again Congress is putting seniors' access to hospital services in jeopardy through arbitrary reductions to hospitals.
The Coalition to Protect America's Health Care today launched a national advertising campaign to urge Congress not to cut Medicare and Medicaid funding for hospital care.
Congress long ago determined that Medicare patients should be required to share in the cost of their care through deductibles and coinsurance. Many Medicare beneficiaries purchase Medigap policies or have other supplemental health insurance that covers their coinsurance and deductibles. But many…
An updated analysis by Tripp Umbach, a firm specializing in conducting economic impact studies, finds that an additional 83,000 jobs could be lost if the Medicare cuts to hospital care included in H.R. 3630 (legislation extending the Social Security tax holiday, unemployment insurance and the…
America's hospitals are very disappointed with the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's (MedPAC) recommendations today regarding changes in Medicare payment to hospitals.
Recommendations, Impact Data, and Opportunity for Member Input
Hospitals repeatedly have expressed concern that the Medicare Area Wage Index (AWI) is greatly flawed in many respects. Members of Congress, Medicare officials and other policymakers also have voiced concerns with the present system.