Brady Expects To Introduce Fraud, Hospital Short Stay Bills This Year

House Ways & Means health subcommittee Chair Kevin Brady (R-TX) said he plans to introduce this year legislation to fight Medicare fraud and replace Medicare’s controversial “two-midnights” inpatient admission criteria. However, he doesn’t know whether his short hospital-stay legislation will be ready before the enforcement moratorium on the two-midnights policy runs out next March. “We’re really close on the fraud bill,” he told reporters following a hearing on Medicare Advantage pay cuts. Ways & Means also is working on legislation...