Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) sent a letter to House and Senate Armed Services Committee leaders highlighting a recently finalized rule by the Defense Health Agency that changes TRICARE’s outpatient reimbursement methodology for children’s hospitals to the Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System methodology.
This change is having negative ramifications for some children’s hospitals and the military-connected children and families they serve. CHA is asking the committees to work with the impacted children’s hospitals that serve major defense communities to identify a policy solution in the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act that prioritizes this critical access to care for military-connected children and families.
