CMS Won't Continue Two-Midnight Cuts, Will Repay Hospitals

Hospitals applaud CMS' announcement late Monday that it won't implement the 0.2 percent cut that has accompanied the controversial two-midnights inpatient hospital admissions policy since 2014, and the agency says in the proposed inpatient hospital pay rule it will pay back hospitals for the years the cut was in place. The agency called its decision to reverse the cuts unique, pointing to the federal court's requirement that CMS justify the cuts stretching over the past few years in light of...