Hospitals Would Be Concerned If Draft Hospital Bill Attached To SGR Deal

Some hospital lobbyists say including the Hospital Improvements for Payment Act in a deal to replace the Medicare physician pay formula would be problematic given hospitals' concerns around the first draft of the bill. House Ways & Means Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) wants to include the hospital bill in the emerging deal to fix the Sustainable Growth Rate formula, according to some lobbyists and analysts, though one hospital lobbyist said it could be difficult to get a bill including the...