In a letter addressed to the Senate Committee on Finance, the American Hospital Association is urging lawmakers to support legislation that would extend expiring health programs and provisions, according to an AHA News Now report.
AHA has asked for extensions to various healthcare programs, including payments for the technical component of certain physician pathology services; ambulance add-on services; outpatient hold-harmless provision for rural and sole community hospitals; Medicare cost payments for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests furnished in certain rural areas; Section 508 hospital wage index reclassifications and sunset for critical access hospitals under the HUD 242 hospital mortgage insurance program.
The hospital advocacy group has also expressed concern that the Medicare-dependent hospital program and the enhanced low-volume adjustment for prospective payment system hospitals are due to expire next calendar year.
AHA has asked for extensions to various healthcare programs, including payments for the technical component of certain physician pathology services; ambulance add-on services; outpatient hold-harmless provision for rural and sole community hospitals; Medicare cost payments for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests furnished in certain rural areas; Section 508 hospital wage index reclassifications and sunset for critical access hospitals under the HUD 242 hospital mortgage insurance program.
The hospital advocacy group has also expressed concern that the Medicare-dependent hospital program and the enhanced low-volume adjustment for prospective payment system hospitals are due to expire next calendar year.
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