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Hospitals warn S.190 could harm critical access facilities as committee debates outsourcing and cost‑sharing fixes
Summary
Hospital representatives told the House Health Care Committee that statutory price caps and changes to how Medicare cost sharing is treated for outpatient services could threaten small and critical access hospitals; the bill directs a GMCB working group to recommend mitigation strategies and orders reporting on outsourcing.
Testimony before the House Health Care Committee on April 28 focused at times on provisions in S.190 about hospital outsourcing and Medicare outpatient cost‑sharing for critical access hospitals.
The bill directs the Green Mountain Care Board to convene a working group — including hospital and insurer representatives — to develop recommendations to mitigate the effects of a federal policy that leaves Medicare beneficiaries responsible for 20% of outpatient charges. The working…
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