The hospital industry has an ambitious public policy agenda for 2025 – most of it involving defending the status quo against proposed changes.
Hospitals’ advocacy in 2025 will focus on:
- Fighting off Medicaid cuts, work requirements, reductions in the federal Medicaid matching rate, eliminating scheduled cuts in Medicaid disproportionate share (Medicaid DSH) allotments to the states, and protecting state-directed Medicaid payments and the ability of states to raise Medicaid funding through provider taxes.
- Preventing a transition to site-neutral payments for Medicare-covered outpatient services.
- Ensuring the continuation of current section 340B prescription drug discount program practices.
- Preserving and even extending current telehealth practices.
- Preserving current subsidies for marketplace health insurance.
- Addressing payers’ utilization management practice.
- Protecting the Medicare-dependent hospital designation and Medicare low-volume payment adjustments.
Learn more about the 2025 public policy priorities of hospitals and others in the health care industry from the Fierce Healthcare article “Healthcare lobbying 2025: Here are the top policy issues for hospitals, payers, docs and tech.”