Now, it looks like that’s stalled. A few weeks ago, the Senate stripped the Act of the very provisions designed to enforce site-neutral payments which would have benefited the patient-consumer ...

Site-neutral payment policy is a distraction from the underlying causes of high healthcare costs and places providers at risk ...

Site neutral payments under the U.S. Medicare program have been contentious for some time, and Congress seems poised to act on the issue in 2025. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is wary of ...

based HCA Healthcare said the system is against "any program implementations that would cut Medicare hospital outpatient reimbursement," but they don't foresee any site-neutral policy forcing them ...

If enacted in 2022, the Fair Pricing Act could have saved patients up to $213.4 million in out-of-pocket costs, research says.

The idea of requiring site-neutral payments in Medicare -- in which providers would be reimbursed at the same rate for performing the same service, regardless of where it's performed -- appears to ...

Nowhere is this more evident than in the current arguments between the American Hospital Association and America’s Hospital Insurance Plans regarding site-neutral payments. The AHA strongly ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Hospitals loathe so-called site-neutral policy, the idea that Medicare should pay hospitals’ outpatient clinics the same, lower amounts as independent physicians’ offices for ...

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Site-neutral payments would broadly require Medicare to pay the same rate for the same service regardless of where it's performed.

SAN FRANCISCO — Hospitals loathe so-called “site-neutral” policy, the idea that Medicare should pay hospitals’ outpatient clinics the same, lower, amounts as independent physicians ...