{"id":14973,"date":"2020-01-14T09:02:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T14:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14973"},"modified":"2020-01-14T09:02:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T14:02:58","slug":"hospital-groups-sue-hhs-seek-to-block-site-neutral-pay-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14973","title":{"rendered":"Hospital groups sue HHS, seek to block site-neutral pay cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ayla Ellison for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Two organizations representing hospitals and health systems across the nation and several individual hospitals sued HHS Jan. 13 over site-neutral payment cuts for 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Under the 2019 Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System\u00a0final rule, CMS made payments for clinic visits site-neutral by reducing the payment rate for evaluation and management services provided at off-campus provider-based departments by 60 percent.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/hospital-groups-sue-hhs-seek-to-block-site-neutral-pay-cuts.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HHS-seal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8242\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HHS-seal-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HHS-seal-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HHS-seal.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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 Ayla Ellison for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Two organizations representing hospitals and health systems across the nation and several individual<\/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-14973","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\/14973","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=14973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14974,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14973\/revisions\/14974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}