MISSOURI HOSPITAL ASSOCATION

Health Issues

-H.R. 1 - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Specific topics included section 5002 (Temporary Increase in Disproportionate Share Hospital Allotments), section 5003 (Extension of Moratoria on Certain Medicaid Regulations), section 4102 (funding of health information technology as it applies to critical access hospitals), section 4301 (Medicare indirect medical education payments), appropriations to the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (comparative effectiveness research) -Childrens Health Insurance Reauthorization Act of 2009. Specific topics included (1) the role of SCHIP in the Missouri Medicaid program and (2) restrictions on physician self-referral in the Medicare program included in the version of the legislation adopted by the House of Representatives. -Criteria for designation of hospital facilities as critical access hospitals for purposes of Medicare and Medicaid payment -Funding for the programs of the Office of Insured Health Care Facilities in the Department of Housing and Urban Development -comment letter on TriCare payments to hospitals as revised by a proposed regulation

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