Senate health committee Chair Lamar Alexander (R-TN) called on CMS to quickly finalize a proposed fiscal 2020 hospital inpatient rule that would raise pay for low-wage hospitals by cutting pay for high-wage hospitals, saying this will help rural hospitals keep up with the cost of providing care, but hospital groups say keeping the proposal budget neutral is unnecessary and could be detrimental to some hospitals. “This new rule attempts to level the playing field between hospitals in areas that have...