Hospital groups call on Congress to refine long-term care hospital payments

Fierce Healthcare – Wednesday, April 1, 2026
By Dave Muoio

Hospital associations have laid out their policy wish list for Congress regarding long-term care hospitals (LTCH), calling for refinements to various requirements around patient criteria and stay length that affect payments.

The changes outlined by the lobbying groups, including the American Hospital Association, would relieve the “severe stress” the subsector is facing and head off facility closures that have mounted in recent years, they said. Failing to stem the loss of LTCH beds “will exacerbate growing hospital and post-acute capacity concerns in markets throughout the country,” they said.

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