[Article] Appeals court sides with HHS on site neutral payments
Healthcare Finance, July 17, 2020
An appeals court has reversed a decision of a lower court and has upheld the action of the Department of Health and Human Services to pay formerly grandfathered off-campus outpatient departments run by hospitals at the same, lower rate of physician clinics. The ruling, which could not have come at a worse time, spells continued financial struggles for hospitals trying to recover from COVID-19 volume losses.
[Article] To Fight the Coronavirus, You Need an Army
The New Yorker, July 17, 2020
Doctors in Houston are discovering that it's not the lack of space or equipment, but they can’t accept more patients because they don't have enough I.C.U. nurses to care for them. Their scarcest resource is human.
