Alliance for Site Neutral Payment Reform strongly urges Congress to reject efforts to dial back payment parity reforms in 21st Century Cures legislation WASHINGTON – The Alliance for Site Neutral Payment Reform – a coalition of patient advocates, providers and payers who support payment parity across sites of service – is urging Congress to protect […]
Stakeholders express disappointment CMS did not finalize limitations on the expansion of services in hospital outpatient setting WASHINGTON – The Alliance for Site Neutral Payment Reform today commended the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for finalizing site neutral payment policies within its 2017 HOPPS Final Payment Rule, which prohibits a hospital outpatient department […]
As Congress returns to Washington, Alliance urges lawmakers to protect site neutral payment provisions to reduce patient, employer and taxpayer costs Washington – The Alliance for Site Neutral Payment Reform launched a new website today (www.siteneutral.org) to better educate lawmakers, industry stakeholders, and the public about the many benefits of advancing site neutral payment reforms […]
Newly introduced bill exempting certain HOPDs and cancer hospitals from payment reform would undercut policies that reduce healthcare costs for patients, employers and taxpayers WASHINGTON – The Alliance for Site Neutral Payment Reform today voiced its opposition for elements of new legislation that would exempt cancer hospitals and certain Hospital Outpatient Departments (HOPDs) from site […]
Seismic shift in cancer care from physician office setting to hospital outpatient department resulting in dramatically higher patient and payer costs WASHINGTON – The Alliance for Site Neutral Payment Reform – a coalition formed to address payment parity across sites of service in order to decrease Medicare and commercial spending, lower taxpayer and beneficiary costs […]
Group of providers, insurers and patient advocates urges lawmakers to expand site neutral reforms to include all hospital outpatient settings WASHINGTON – The Alliance for Site Neutral Payment Reform (Alliance) urged leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and Subcommittee on Health in a letter submitted on February 12 to expand Section 603 […]
– Eliminating disparities for identical care provided in different settings promotes healthcare savings and patient choice – WASHINGTON – America’s healthcare system could save billions of dollars if payment rates for identical healthcare services were equalized across care settings, according to a group of consumer advocates, policy experts and physicians who spoke at a Capitol […]
Coalition of providers, insurers and patient advocacy groups calls on Congress to further advance site-neutral policies to reduce healthcare costs for patients, employers and taxpayers WASHINGTON – The Alliance for Site Neutral Payment Reform today applauded a new site-neutral payment provision included in the federal budget agreement signed into law yesterday by President Barack Obama. […]
Coalition of providers, insurers and patient advocacy groups urges lawmakers to advance site neutral payment reform to protect patient access, reduce healthcare spending WASHINGTON – The Alliance for Site-Neutral Payment Reform today applauded lawmakers for including a site-neutral payment provision in the proposed federal budget agreement, which would ensure all new hospital acquisitions of private […]