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 […]