by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 17, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Doctors in California who mail abortion pills to people in other states would be protected from prosecution under a new bill to be unveiled Friday in the state Legislature. The bill would not let California extradite doctors who are facing charges in another state for...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 16, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Nonprofit hospitals received $28 billion in taxpayer subsidies in 2020 but only provided $16 billion in free or discounted care, a new analysis found. Hospitals have long argued that nonprofit providers do more for their communities than can be adequately measured and...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 10, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Eliminating “bureaucratic” requirements such as prior authorization or other workflow tasks that keep providers from caring for patients will go a long way toward addressing the nationwide crisis of clinician burnout, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, M.D. said...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 7, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
A collection of nine hospital groups wrote to congressional leadership Monday calling for action to stave off $8 billion in cuts to Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments that could start October 1. While Congress has traditionally delayed the cuts,...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 1, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
A new white paper that has yet to be peer-reviewed makes a case for the removal of restrictions on physician-owned hospitals (POH), stating that removing the POH ban would allow physicians to invest and innovate in the hospitals where they apply their expertise every...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 27, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Fourteen rural-state senators are calling on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to extend a payment policy that increases payments to hospitals in areas with lower overall wages, which is set to expire at the end of the government’s 2023 fiscal year. The...
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