Hospitals Must Ask Citizenship Status for Medicare Participation and Report Costs.
This act mandates that hospitals participating in the Medicare program must include a question about citizenship status on patient intake forms. The legislation aims to quantify the financial impact of healthcare provided to non-citizens. Hospitals will be required to submit annual reports detailing the volume of non-citizen patients and the associated costs of uncompensated care, which the government will then make public.
Key points
Hospitals must ask patients about their US citizenship status on intake forms as a condition for receiving Medicare payments.
Hospitals are required to annually report the number of non-citizens served and the dollar amount of uncompensated care provided to them.
The government must publicly release annual reports detailing the total uncompensated care costs for non-citizens and related federal expenditures under Medicare and Medicaid.
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