MedCity News February 7, 2024
Establishing site-neutral payments for outpatient services is a hot issue in Capitol Hill right now. Advocates say that such policy would lower healthcare costs, saving both patients and taxpayers money. Opponents say that it would put hospitals’ financial security at risk and jeopardize access to care.
Standardizing Medicare payments for outpatient services, regardless of the healthcare facility in which they’re delivered, is a hot issue in Capitol Hill. In the past couple years, a few bipartisan efforts to establish site-neutral outpatient payments have been introduced in Congress, but it’s uncertain if these bills will ever become law — especially as hospitals increasingly lobby against them.
That is not a surprise given that site neutrality carries the potential to reduce costs...
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