On Capitol Hill, health system CEOs agree to ‘rational reworking’ of site-neutral payments

Fierce Healthcare – Tuesday, April 28, 2026
By Dave Muoio

Health system CEOs faced an airing of grievances Tuesday from House Ways and Means Committee members over rising healthcare costs and policies several Republican members said have placed their organizations on an uneven competitive playing field.

The more than four-hour hearing was in many ways a rehash of the session held by a separate House subcommittee last month, in which the majority party’s members questioned whether hospitals could justify various subsidies and pay rates while Democrats focused their commentary on repeals of funding and coverage reductions from last summer’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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