Fierce Health Payers April 14, 2021
The House overwhelmingly passed legislation to pause cuts to Medicare payments to help providers still facing financial challenges due to COVID-19.
The House passed the legislation 384-38 on Tuesday that pauses a 2% cut on Medicare payments through the rest of the year. The cuts, created originally under the sequester, were paused by Congress last year due to the pandemic.
The legislation now heads to the White House, where President Biden is expected to sign it.
Technically the moratorium on the cuts ended on March 31 and the cuts went back into effect. However, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced earlier this month that it was holding claims payments to ensure that providers are not impacted by the...
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