Adjusts Medicare payments to hospitals with lower wage indices to ensure they receive at least 95% of the previous year's payment.
The Save Struggling Hospitals Act amends the Social Security Act to ensure hospitals with lower wage indices receive adequate Medicare payments. Specifically, it increases the area wage index for hospitals below the 25th percentile by half the difference between their index and the 25th percentile index. This adjustment aims to maintain budget neutrality and prevent hospitals from receiving less than 95% of the previous year's payment.
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