AAH: Act now on sequester cuts
By HME News Staff
Updated 10:07 AM CST, Thu December 10, 2020
WASHINGTON – Reps. Brad Schneider, D-Ill., and David McKinley, R-West Va., have introduced legislation to prevent Medicare reimbursement cuts to health care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, AAHomecare reports.
H.R. 8840, the Medicare Sequester COVID Moratorium Act, would continue to pause the 2% Medicare sequester cuts through the public health emergency.
“Suspending the 2% Medicare sequester cut has been especially helpful to the home medical equipment community, given significant rate reductions our industry has faced over the past decade,” AAHomecare stated in a bulletin.
In March, Congress halted the 2% cuts through Dec. 31, 2020.
Earlier this year, AAHomecare joined a coalition of 34 major medical groups calling on Congress to extend this relief. The association is urging HME providers and other stakeholders to contact their legislators and ask them to support H.R. 8840.
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