CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Medicare exemption that would have bolstered payments to the cancer center at Cleveland’s University Hospitals is out of the latest health-care reform bill, according to The Plain Dealer.
The amendment would have provide a coveted Medicare exemption for UH and three other hospitals across the country by removing limits on Medicare reimbursements. That could have meant several millions dollars annually for the new free-standing Ireland Cancer Center, which is set to open in 2011.
Nearby health systems MetroHealth and Cleveland Clinic stood in the way of UH getting the exception because they each though they should also get the same status. The exemption also got tarred as a pork-barrel portion of health reform, even though hospitals get these exemptions because the costs of running these certified cancer centers are higher than other facilities.
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With UH’s cancer center two years away from opening, it’s unlikely this was the last time supportive politicians will try to insert the amendment. It’s just unlikely it will be part of health-care reform.
