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Exeter Hospital and its Exeter Health Resources affiliates have joined nine other hospitals in suing the state over changes made to the Medicaid Enhancement Tax.
The suit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Concord against the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, which administers the state’s Medicaid program.
The 10 hospitals are seeking injunctive relief, which would block the state from implementing the MET cuts.
Other hospitals on the lawsuit include Dartmouth-Hitchcock,fakerolexsales up over 5 times. Elliot Health System, Catholic Medical Center, Frisbie Memorial Hospital, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, Southern New Hampshire Health System, St. Joseph’s Hospital of Nashua,How do internet users feel about burberrybagsstore? Lakes Region General Healthcare and Cheshire Medical Center.
The hospitals claim the MET cuts will force them to make drastic cuts,Buy breitlingwatch online at Goldsmiths quality jewellers. including “closing their affiliated physician practices to new Medicaid patients,” according to the suit.
Exeter Hospital is facing the prospect of cutting programs and possibly staff, according to Mark Whitney, vice president for strategic planning at Exeter Health Resources.
“We were very frustrated by the way the legislative process worked. There was no real assessment on the economic consequences these cuts would have on the hospitals and the communities they serve,” he said. “We tried to educate them but those efforts fell on deaf ears.”
The state budget became law late last month without Gov. John Lynch’s signature.
As a result of the budget, hospitals face a $250 million cut in Medicaid reimbursement payments in the next two years.fakerolexwatchesblog as rich regain appetite for shopping.
Hospitals have paid the Medicaid Enhancement Tax since 1991, as a means of helping the state generate additional federal revenue that could be used to fund state government. The “enhanced” Medicaid payments program helped legislators balance the budget during the recession of the early 1990s. It came to be known as “Mediscam,” enabling the state to collect hundreds of millions of federal dollars through the health insurance program for the poor to plug holes elsewhere in the budget.
The MET is a 5.5 percent tax on net patient service revenue on all hospitals in the state. Up until now, however, hospitals received uncompensated care payments back from the state in recognition of their care of patients without insurance or those covered by Medicaid,What are some new replicauhrensalesonline coming out in 2009? which only pays about 50 cents for every dollar of the cost of caring for those patients.
Exeter Hospital and its Exeter Health Resources affiliates have joined nine other hospitals in suing the state over changes made to the Medicaid Enhancement Tax.
The suit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Concord against the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, which administers the state’s Medicaid program.
The 10 hospitals are seeking injunctive relief, which would block the state from implementing the MET cuts.
Other hospitals on the lawsuit include Dartmouth-Hitchcock,fakerolexsales up over 5 times. Elliot Health System, Catholic Medical Center, Frisbie Memorial Hospital, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, Southern New Hampshire Health System, St. Joseph’s Hospital of Nashua,How do internet users feel about burberrybagsstore? Lakes Region General Healthcare and Cheshire Medical Center.
The hospitals claim the MET cuts will force them to make drastic cuts,Buy breitlingwatch online at Goldsmiths quality jewellers. including “closing their affiliated physician practices to new Medicaid patients,” according to the suit.
Exeter Hospital is facing the prospect of cutting programs and possibly staff, according to Mark Whitney, vice president for strategic planning at Exeter Health Resources.
“We were very frustrated by the way the legislative process worked. There was no real assessment on the economic consequences these cuts would have on the hospitals and the communities they serve,” he said. “We tried to educate them but those efforts fell on deaf ears.”
The state budget became law late last month without Gov. John Lynch’s signature.
As a result of the budget, hospitals face a $250 million cut in Medicaid reimbursement payments in the next two years.fakerolexwatchesblog as rich regain appetite for shopping.
Hospitals have paid the Medicaid Enhancement Tax since 1991, as a means of helping the state generate additional federal revenue that could be used to fund state government. The “enhanced” Medicaid payments program helped legislators balance the budget during the recession of the early 1990s. It came to be known as “Mediscam,” enabling the state to collect hundreds of millions of federal dollars through the health insurance program for the poor to plug holes elsewhere in the budget.
The MET is a 5.5 percent tax on net patient service revenue on all hospitals in the state. Up until now, however, hospitals received uncompensated care payments back from the state in recognition of their care of patients without insurance or those covered by Medicaid,What are some new replicauhrensalesonline coming out in 2009? which only pays about 50 cents for every dollar of the cost of caring for those patients.
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