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Infographic: Medicare Significantly Underpays Hospitals for Cost of Patient Care
While Medicare has historically reimbursed hospitals below the cost of providing care to patients, new data shows that Medicare payment levels hit record lows in 2022.
White Paper: Medicare’s LTCH Outlier Policy Needs Reforms to Protect Extremely Ill Beneficiaries
Long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) play an important role for Medicare beneficiaries by caring for complex patients who
require extended hospitalization.
Take Action Now to Protect Patient Care
As congressional leaders continue to hammer out annual spending bills ahead of the Jan. 19 and Feb. 2 deadlines to fund various agencies, a number of important issues affecting hospitals and health systems are being considered.
MedPAC votes on 2025 payment recommendations
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Jan. 11 voted to recommend that Congress update Medicare payment rates for hospital inpatient and outpatient services by the current law amount plus 1.5% for 2025, and reiterated its recommendation to distribute an additional $4 billion to safety-net hospitals by transitioning to a Medicare safety-net index policy.
AHA Urges Congress to Eliminate Medicaid DSH Cuts, Reject Site-neutral Payments
AHA comments regarding the ongoing government funding discussion, AHA Urges Congress to eliminate Medicaid DSH cuts, reject Site-neutral payments.
AHA infographic: Medicare underpayments to hospitals nearly $100 billion in 2022
Medicare paid hospitals a record low 82 cents for every dollar they spent caring for Medicare patients in 2022, according to a new AHA infographic.
CMS accepting applications for additional Medicare residency slots
Eligible hospitals can apply through March 31 for a share of the 200 additional Medicare-funded residency slots available for fiscal year 2025.
Coalition ad campaign urges Congress to reject Medicare cuts to hospitals
As the first of two deadlines to fund the federal government approaches Jan. 19, the Coalition to Protect America’s Health Care yesterday launched a television ad on network and cable news shows urging Congress to reject Medicare cuts to hospitals and health systems already pushed to the brink by broken supply chains, workforce shortages and high inflation.
AHA comments on MedPAC payment proposals for 2025
AHA Jan. 5 thanked the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission for its draft recommendation to provide a current-law market basket update plus 1.5% for the hospital inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems in 2025, but urged the commission to recommend a higher update to account for the sustained and substantial financial pressures hospitals face.
AHA Comments on Upcoming MedPAC Payment Update Recommendations
AHA shares comments and ask that commissioners consider the following issues before making their final payment update recommendations at the upcoming Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) meeting.