Republicans who hope to cut spending and extend expiring tax cuts are considering a lengthy list of budgetary offsets that includes more than $3 trillion in healthcare cuts. Most, if not all, of these policies outlined in a document circulating among lawmakers are not new to the GOP. They include eliminating nonprofit status for hospitals, banning hospital facility and telehealth fees, instituting “site-neutral” Medicare payments for outpatient services, boosting Medicare physician reimbursements, cutting graduate medical education funding, repealing a staffing mandate on nursing homes, tightening access to health insurance exchange subsidies, and slashing Medicaid by about $1.4 trillion.
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Source: https://www.modernhealthcare.com/politics-policy/medicaid-cuts-gop-block-grants