From Modern Healthcare:
Certain requirements in the CMS’ proposed rule on rural health clinics are potentially unfair and need to be revised, the American Hospital Association wrote in comments to the agency.
The rule, proposed on June 27, seeks to establish location requirements for rural health clinics, including exception criteria, and would require these clinics to establish a quality assessment and performance-improvement program. The rulemaking would also revise the payment methodology for rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers and allow these clinics to contract with rural health clinic “nonphysician providers” under certain circumstances.
In its comments, AHA urged the CMS not to revise its payment methodology setting Medicare payments “at no more than 80% of reasonable costs after application of beneficiary copayments and deductibles,” as this would threaten the financial viability of many of these rural clinics.
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