Hospitals Will Have to Make Painful Cuts if CMS Slashes Drug Payments

by Admin | October 26, 2017 3:12 pm

October 26, 2017—Hospitals have begun the agonizing process of deciding which vital [1] patient services to scale back or switch off should the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) follow through with plans to slash Medicare drug reimbursement to 340B hospitals starting Jan. 1. Cancer care and help for patients addicted to opioids could be on the chopping block, hospitals say, even as America’s opioid crisis is declared a public health emergency. 

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Source URL: https://340binformed.org/2017/10/hospitals-will-have-to-make-painful-cuts-if-cms-slashes-drug-payments/

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