Hospitals Chafe Under A Medicare Rule That Reduces Payments To Far-Flung Clinics

(By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez for NPR)

Eric Lewis’ plans of expanding his community hospital’s reach have been derailed.

As CEO of Olympic Medical Center, he oversees efforts to provide care to roughly 75,000 people in Clallam County, in the isolated, rural northwestern corner of Washington state.

Last year, Lewis planned to build a primary care clinic in Sequim, a town about 17 miles from the medical center’s main campus of a hospital and clinics in Port Angeles.  Continue reading article here…

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