Rennova Health Inc (RNVA)

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Public option Medicare is a separate issue that has differing political viewpoints of it's impact.

Buried at the end of the article and clearly detailed is the explanation as to why rural hospitals are about to get a big boost with the wage index change. This will absolutely assist no matter what medicare plan is in place


""To help struggling rural hospitals, the Trump administration last week issued a final rule to increase the wage index for hospitals with a wage index value below the 25th percentile. CMS is also finalizing changes to the wage index "rural floor" that will remove urban to rural hospital reclassifications from the calculation of the rural floor wage index value beginning in FY 2020.


To pay for the wage index hike, CMS is using a budget neutrality adjustment to the standardized amount that is applied across all IPPS hospitals. The American Hospital Association said the wage index hike for rural hospitals comes at the expense of urban hospitals, and has called on CMS to "increase the wage index in a non-budget neutral manner.""


https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/finance/medicare-public-option-threatens-half-rural-hospitals