House Inches Closer to Passing Hospital-Feared, Payer-Loved ‘Site-Neutral’ Reforms
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Sep 15, 2023
The House is reportedly poised to vote soon on legislation that consolidates a host of previously introduced health care measures — including a step toward site-neutral payment reform. Aimed at stopping “price gouging” by hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs), those provisions are enthusiastically supported by payers but opposed by the hospital industry, which argues that they would result in payment reductions.
The legislation also would codify existing regulations that lay out new price transparency requirements for health plans and hospitals, and it would implement modest PBM reforms.
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