{"id":11304,"date":"2018-08-25T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11304"},"modified":"2018-08-24T10:33:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T14:33:36","slug":"proposed-payment-changes-could-influence-hospitals-acquisition-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11304","title":{"rendered":"Proposed payment changes could influence hospitals&#8217; acquisition strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kelly Gooch and Ayla Ellison for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/p>\n<p>CMS&#8217; 2019 Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/cms-proposed-outpatient-payment-rule-for-2019-10-things-to-know.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed rule<\/a>, which calls for site-neutral payments and various other hospital payment changes, would likely put pressure on nonprofit and for-profit hospital operating margins, according to S&amp;P Global Ratings. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/proposed-payment-changes-could-influence-hospitals-acquisition-strategies.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56786036-\u00a9-Alexmillos-Dreamstime_com_-700x452.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8431\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56786036-\u00a9-Alexmillos-Dreamstime_com_-700x452-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56786036-\u00a9-Alexmillos-Dreamstime_com_-700x452-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56786036-\u00a9-Alexmillos-Dreamstime_com_-700x452.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kelly Gooch and Ayla Ellison for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) CMS&#8217; 2019 Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System\u00a0proposed rule, which calls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11305,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11304\/revisions\/11305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}