Healthcare DIVE August 3, 2021
Dive Brief:
- In a win for providers, CMS dropped a requirement that would have forced hospitals to disclose their contract terms with Medicare Advantage plans from its final inpatient pay rule for 2022 released Monday.
- The rule bumps payment for inpatient services by 2.5%, which will result in hospitals getting $2.3 billion more than this year, CMS said. The agency expects Medicare disproportionate share hospital payments and uncompensated costs to drop by $1.4 billion in 2022 compared to this year, while long-term care hospitals will get a 1.1% payment bump, or a gain of $42 million.
- Medicare will also continue shelling out add-on payments for COVID-19 treatments and therapies through the end of the fiscal year when the public...
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