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Prevent Damaging Cuts in Federal Medicare Spending
With a new Congress eager to introduce its own health care priorities but mindful of the need to find the resources needed to pay for any new spending, a number of proposals that were first offered in 2006 could resurface in 2007. Last year, for example, both the administration and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) proposed or discussed reductions or major changes in numerous components of Medicare payments - annual cost of living (“market basket”) updates, disproportionate share (DSH) payments, the inpatient classification (DRG) system, the Medicare area wage index, bad debt reimbursement, capital payments, outliers, the occupational mix adjustment, and medical education payments. NAUH will identify and monitor Medicare proposals, both old and new, that would affect urban hospitals and oppose those that would hurt such hospitals while also supporting and advocating policy changes that would benefit them.
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