Healthcare DIVE August 4, 2020
UPDATE: Aug. 4, 2020: Hospital groups on Tuesday expressed frustration with the outpatient rule, especially the continued rate cut for 340B hospitals.
The American Hospital Association said it also opposes nixing the inpatient-only list, saying many of those services “are surgical procedures that may be complex, complicated, and require the care and coordinated services provided in the inpatient setting of a hospital.”
AHA’s statement also condemned proposed changes to loosen regulations on physician-owned hospitals with a large proportion of Medicaid patients, allowing them to apply to expand more often and lifting some restrictions on how much they expand and where. “This trend creates a destabilizing environment that leaves sicker and less-affluent patients to community hospitals, threatening the health care safety...
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