Hospitals: Don’t Pay For Infrastructure With Provider Relief, Sequester

By Michelle M. Stein / June 29, 2021 at 6:21 PM

Hospitals are raising concerns that outstanding COVID-19 provider relief funds and an extension of the Medicare sequester could be used to offset the costs of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal, after the White House’s outline of the framework said it would be partially offset by repurposing unused pandemic relief funds and extending the mandatory sequester.


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