Author: Dorron Blumberg

Following the just-convened state legislative session, pregnant women eligible for Medicaid can now keep that coverage for a full year post-partum. The measure passed as part of the state budget with bipartisan acknowledgement that new mothers’ health and reducing maternal morbidity and mortality depend, in part, on access to quality health care.

Fiscal Year 2021 is a difficult year for hospital Medicare reimbursement. Medicare “will cut payments to 83% of the 3,080 hospitals evaluated” under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program.¹ Reimbursement reductions “from 0.01% to the maximum of 3.0%”² will compound the financial challenges emanating from the COVID pandemic.