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Public hearing on House Bill 1599 focuses on ensuring pathologists receive professional fees from Medicaid hospital payments
Summary
House Bill 1599, presented at a public hearing, would require clearer payment pathways so pathologists receive the professional component of Medicaid hospital reimbursements; multiple pathology witnesses said current practice leaves pathologists unpaid for services provided to Medicaid patients.
The Committee on Professional Registration and Licensing opened a public hearing on House Bill 1599, a bill the sponsor described as a regulatory clarification to ensure pathologists are paid the professional component of hospital Medicaid reimbursements.
At the hearing, proponents — including several practicing pathologists and representatives of pathology groups — said hospitals currently receive a single global payment for pathology services from Medicaid and often do not pass the professional portion on to the pathologist or pathology group. "The hospital uses it for whatever purposes they have, and none of that reaches the…
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