Policy and Legislation
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposes changes to quality reporting, readmission fines and disproportionate share hospital payments.
A decision to take away subsidies could leave millions without insurance.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it expects to include further discussion of the issue in the 2016 prospective payment systems proposal to be published this summer.
Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott has said he will sue the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for allegedly threatening to withhold other federal funds if the state fails to adopt expansion.
New law reinforces the need for hospitals and health systems to establish strategic ties with physicians, ratings agency says.
The SGR repeal legislation could kill the proverbial two birds with one stone, replacing once and for all the unpopular SGR, while also supporting the Department of Health and Human Services' push for fee for value in general and ACOs in particular.
The bill ends years of "doc fixes" to stop mandatory physician pay cuts from taking effect under a SGR formula for controlling costs, a measure most agreed never worked.
The bill to replace the SGR avoids the short-range physician payment cuts, but it raises long-range concerns that may need more legislative fixes.
The bill would expand coverage using federal subsidies, but would also require some enrollees to pay premiums and participate in job programs.