Hospitals Say Medicare Regulations Not Keeping Pace With Pay Reforms

Medicare regulations are not keeping pace with payment reforms, and that gap between those pay reforms, which often involve penalties, and the lack of updates to regulations that help hospitals implement them exacerbates the financial hardships that hospitals face, hospital executives said Thursday (Feb. 26). They said hospitals cannot absorb more pay cuts, such as a site-neutral policy that would pay lower, doctor-office rates to hospital outpatient departments for certain services, in part because of the growing gap between pay...