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Around the nation: Senate committee advances bill cutting hospital facility fees


The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee on Thursday advanced the Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act of 2023, a bill that would ban facility fees for telehealth and evaluation and management services performed outside the hospital, and more, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from the District of Columbia, New York, and Texas.

  • District of Columbia: The Senate HELP committee on Thursday advanced the Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act of 2023 on a 14-7 vote. The bill would ban facility fees for telehealth and evaluation and management services performed outside the hospital, as well as require outpatient providers to use separate identifiers to avoid overbilling and prevent hospitals from demanding contracts with insurance companies that ban insurers from steering patients to other providers. The bill will also provide funding for a number of programs, including federally qualified health centers, teaching hospitals, and more. Stacey Hughes, EVP of the American Hospital Association (AHA), said AHA appreciates "that the bill contains numerous policies to address healthcare workforce shortages" but added that the association is "concerned that these investments come directly at the expense of the hospitals, health systems, and caregivers that need this support in the first place." (McAuliff, Modern Healthcare, 9/21)
  • New York: DocGo last week announced that Lee Bienstock will be the mobile health services company's new CEO following the resignation of Anthony Capone earlier this month. Capone's resignation came after he acknowledged falsifying his academic credentials, and a spokesperson for DocGo said Capone was stepping down for personal reasons. Previously, Bienstock served as DocGo's president and COO and joined the company in 2022 following 10 years working at Google. (Turner, Modern Healthcare, 9/18)
  • Texas: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and the University of Texas at San Antonio are partnering up to offer the first combined doctor of medicine and master of science in artificial intelligence degree in the United States. The five-year program has three tracks — data analytics, computer science, and intelligent and autonomous systems. Any prospective students must first complete one year at the Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio before applying for the program. (Stringer, Axios San Antonio, 9/19) 

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