Congress Seeks Bigger Bump for Medicare Hospital Payments
More than 140 members of Congress have written to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure asking her to implement a bigger increase in Medicare payments for hospital inpatient services than the agency has proposed for FY 2023. According to separate bipartisan letters from House and Senate members, the proposed FY 2023 increase – 2.8 percent – fails to reflect inflation and rising health care staffing costs. The letter signed by 112 House members states that We worry the proposed payment updates do not accurately reflect today’s cost of patient care and, when tethered with other policy changes [...]