Medicare already plans to stop paying certain hospital-owned physician practices at higher rates than those that are independently owned.
The Alliance for Site Neutral Payment Reform has launched a new website devoted to supporting site neutral payment reforms.
Aimed at lawmakers, healthcare officials and the general public, the site features research on the value of payment parity across sites of service, and makes a case for why Congress should protect and expand Section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, which equalizes Medicare reimbursements across healthcare facilities.
The Alliance has said it believes that all outpatient off-campus facilities — not just the hospital outpatient departments built or purchased after November 2, 2015, as is currently the case — should be included in the payment neutralization provision.
Read full article: New website hopes to build support for site-neutral healthcare payments – Healthcare Finance News, September 12, 2016