Rural hospitals push back on Medicare payment rules
Rep. Jim Lightfoot criticizes the Medicare prospective payment system as urban biased and harming rural hospitals. Sundwall of HHS cites modest steps to aid rural facilities while Booth notes Congress set the urban rural differential. The hearing signals possible legislative review of Medicare reimbursement formulas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Lynch
Washington Bureau
Washington
Jim Ross Lightfoot
Iowa
David Sundwall
Health Resources and Services Administration
Shenandoah Republican
Lightfoot
House Aging Committee
New Rural Health Care Coalition
Iowa Republican
Sundwall
Tom Tauke
Health and Human Services
Charles Booth
Office
Congress
Federal
Department of Health and Human Services
Tauke
Olympia Snowe
Decorah seniors win congressional military academy appointments
Decorah High School seniors Michael Nelson and Warren Wicks earned U S military academy appointments with Wicks bound for the Naval Academy in Annapolis and Nelson for West Point. Both were nominated by former Congressman Cooper Evans and praised by his successor. They will report to their academies this summer. The report also notes John Judge’s election as president of the Eastern Iowa Tourism Association, which includes 28 counties, and mentions rural health care efforts with HHS creating a rural health office after hospital administrator groups pressed for change.
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Decorah
Michael Nelson
Warren Wicks
U.S
Wicks
Wes Wicks
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Nelson
Kent Nelson
United States Military Academy
West Point
N.Y
Cooper Evans
Dave Nagle
Evans
John Judge
Clinton Convention and Visitors Bureau
Eastern Iowa Tourism Association
Waterloo
Iowa
Karl Espinosa
Bettendorf Convention and Visitors Bureau
Karen Donahey
Westerheim Museum
Penny Gronen
Dubuque
Bev White
Muscatine County
Mike Jones
Jackson County
Economicevelopment Commissior
Congress
Department of Health and Human Services
Debates spotlight Babbitt and du Pont at Midwest event
At the Midwest Republican Leadership Conference in Des Moines 900 activists watched former governors Babbitt and du Pont debate on Drake University campus. Babbitt showed improved poise while du Pont urged peers to leave the cocoon. The event drew broad media attention and spurred talk of further GOP and Democratic debates.
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Bruce Babbitt
Pierre du Pont
Midwest Republican Leadership Conference
Conversa Luvhs
Drake University
Des Moines
Arizona
Babbitt
Delaware
du Pont
Iowa
Frank Fahrenkopf
George Bush
Pete du Pont
Robert Ray
Cedar Rapids
Bush
U.S
Charles Grassley
Senate
Bob Dole
Kansas
Grassley
Dole
George
Air Force 2
Secret Service
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Rural Health Care Coalition
HHS
Jack Kemp
New York
Richard Gephardt
Missouri
Paigns
New Hampshire
Pat Robertson
Alexander Haig
Daniel Mariaschin
Haig
Kentucky
Joe Gaylord
National Republican Congressional Committee
Paul Laxalt
Nevada
GOP
Laxalt
Ken Sullivan
Armstrong Budget Menswear
Idar Rapids
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