Why are Medicare cuts bad? Industry has a billion reasons
Bruce Yarwood, AHCA CEO
The proposed Medicare cuts would actually cost more than $3.6 billion in lost business activity and labor income, according to the American Health Care Association and the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care. Such reductions also could lead to the loss of more than 30,000 healthcare jobs, the long-term care organizations warned.
Should the proposed cuts be enacted, they would “sidetrack our sector's ongoing ability to create good-paying health jobs,” said AHCA President and CEO Bruce Yarwood.
“Implementation of this Bush-era Medicare regulation will, in fact, cut good health jobs, undermine economic stimulus initiatives, and derail badly needed delivery system reforms already benefiting beneficiaries and taxpayers,” Yarwood said.
The proposed cuts, combined with a recommended annual Medicare inflationary pay hike, would leave providers with about $16 less per day, according to one provider source estimate.
