HealthLeaders Media June 29, 2021
Hospitals are voicing their opposition to the use of sequestration cuts and unspent COVID-19 provider relief funds to help pay for the plan.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework identifies unused COVID relief money as a possible funding source.
– But hospitals said syphoning away COVID relief money would harm health systems.
The nation’s biggest hospital associations are raising objections to the newly released $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework after learning that it would be partially paid for with continued sequestration cuts and unspent money from the COVID-19 provider relief funds.
In a one-page letter sent Tuesday to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, the American Hospital Association and eight other stakeholder associations...
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