HOSPITALS - Wanted: Your Info On Undocumented Aliens
Reward: your share of $1 billion MMA fund.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is dangling a new carrot in front of providers -- but will it be worth going through an awkward situation with their uninsured patients?
The new proposal issued July 22 would make $250 million a year -- $1 billion total over four years -- available to hospitals and providers to "help recoup the costs of providing uninsured care" according to CMS.
Nestled in the proposal is a requirement that hospitals and others collect and maintain additional information on the immigration status of patients in...
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