The proposal takes a direct shot in the hospital industry, which has long been protested so -called Site neutral schemes,
hospital Get reimbursement in the present For off-kampus outpatient care as compared to doctors offices or ambulatory surgical centers, some MPs and a source of significant disappointment for fiscal huxes that argue to equal payment rates will save taxpayers billions of dollars.
Bipartite site-plate schemes Debated With the hope of joining Congress last year Spending at the end of the yearBut a deal did not become physical.
In a proposed Rule On Tuesday, the center of Medicare and Medicade Services (CMS) took an important step in that direction. Agency proposed Reduce payment For outpatient drugs distributed in hospitals and off-campus features.
CMS said that this step will help to ensure this Beneficiaries Are not punished With additional coops “simply where they receive care, it is based on it.”
The agency estimated that outpatient expenses in the site-plate provision would be reduced by $ 280 million; Medicare will save $ 210 million, and Medicare beneficiaries will save $ 70 million as low coins.
The American Hospital Association pushed back the proposal.
The group said in a statement, “Studies show that there is more likely to serve medicare patients in hospital outpatient departments, which are sick, more clinically complex, and more likely to be disabled or poor in rural communities than patients treated in independent physician offices.”
