Obama, Trump HHS Chiefs: Parties Can Tap Site-Neutral Reform To Pay For Big Policy Priorities

The HHS chiefs for the Obama and Trump administrations this week said long-debated Medicare site-neutral payment reforms offer whichever party wins in November a way to pay for expensive policy priorities, like both parties’ calls to extend the life of Medicare or GOP efforts to continue the Trump-era tax breaks. Requiring Medicare to pay the same price for services regardless of where they’re provided was included in both former president Barack Obama’s and Donald Trump’s budgets. But while the policy...