Fierce Healthcare April 3, 2024
To address the nation’s drug shortages, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is floating a plan that would attach new Medicare payments and penalties to hospitals’ supply chain practices.
This program, which was described in a white paper released yesterday alongside another focused on drug manufacturers, would require new authorities from Congress and would be phased in over the course of several years.
The so-called Hospital Resilient Supply Program (HRSP) would see hospitals graded on a “scorecard that would be a combination of attestations and ratings reflecting the hospitals’ achievement and progress in adopting practices that promote supply chain resilience or prevent shortages,” HHS wrote in the white paper.
Hospitals, HHS wrote, could potentially be rewarded for managing...
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