For example, the comparison shows the House bill cutting disproportionate share hospital payments by an estimated $20.3 billion, while the Senate bill would cut those DSH Medicare and Medicaid payments by an estimated $43 billion.
“Healthcare providers would be well advised not to ‘hunker down’ and wait for legislation to be enacted,” said HFMA President and CEO Richard L. Clarke in a separate release. “The start of a new year is the perfect time to infuse our organizations with a sense of optimism about the possibilities engendered by the imminence of reform legislation.”
Read HFMA’s release on health reform.
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