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The National Association of Urban Hospitals consists of private, non-profit urban safety-net hospitals that work together to advocate fair and adequate support, financing, and reimbursement from government payers – Medicare and Medicaid – for hospitals that serve America's neediest urban communities.

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Noteworthy News

  • The Affordable Care Act-mandated fee increase for primary care physicians serving Medicaid patients is not reaching those physicians.[…]
  • Penalties assessed by Medicare’s hospital readmissions reduction program appear to be falling especially hard on hospitals that serve[…]
  • The National Association of Urban Hospitals has conveyed to Congress its support of a bill to delay implementation[…]
  • Cuts in Medicare DSH and Medicaid DSH payments, scheduled to be take effect beginning in FY 2014, would[…]
  • The National Association of Urban Hospitals (NAUH) has issued a news release praising the federal Centers for Medicare[…]
  • With many states preparing to expand their Medicaid programs and enroll unprecedented numbers of new people, it is[…]
  • With the Affordable Care Act mandate for significantly reduced Medicare disproportionate share hospital payments (Medicare DSH) required to[…]
  • Supporters of the Affordable Care Act envisioned Medicaid expansion taking a traditional path:  a combination of new recipients[…]