Site-neutral payment policies ensure Medicare pays the same rate for services, promoting cost-effectiveness, competition, and patient choice. Site neutrality also removes financial incentives for hospitals to acquire physician practices and outpatient facilities by making them hospital-based services.
Implementing site neutrality improves healthcare cost control, access to care, and affordability for patients. Congress must equalize payment rates for colorectal cancer screenings between the hospital outpatient department and ambulatory surgery center settings.
Let your Senators and Representatives know they must support site-neutral payment policies.