tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 2

INDUSTRY NOTES: Motion To Warn Could Sway Budget Bill Conferees To Throw Out Medicaid Benefit Cuts

Plus: Scrutiny of Medicare QIOs intensifies.Just as the much-debated budget reconciliation bill is under consideration in the Senate, an influential hospital organization and a senator took a last stand against the legislation's provisions for Medicaid "benefit flexibility" and cost-sharing--and they won.Many safety net providers and the patients they serve "would be especially at risk if states were to impose new cost-sharing on Medicaid recipients, make premiums and co-payments enforceable or provide reduced Medicaid benefits," the American Hospital Association wrote in a Dec. 12 letter to the Senate Finance Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee Chairmen...

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