Site Neutral Alliance Pushes To Remove Exemptions; Hospitals Push Back

The Alliance for Site Neutral Payment Reform, along with the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute, are pushing lawmakers to get rid of the exemptions to off-campus hospital facility site-neutral pay policies, and while some lobbyists don’t expect such policy shift would move on its own, they say there’s a possibility it could come up later in the year as a way to help pay for a larger health care package. Hospitals, however, have pushed against expanding site-neutral payments,...