Texas hospitals face threat from proposed Medicare cuts

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Texas hospitals face threat from proposed Medicare cuts
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Congress is weighing an end to the practice of paying more for healthcare delivered at hospital outpatient facilities, in an effort to cut tens of billions of d

Texas hospitals like Houston Methodist have devoted big parts of their businesses in recent years to buying up doctors' practices and rebranding them as part of their outpatient networks. But they may soon have to figure out a different strategy.

Texas nonprofit led by Trump's ag secretary pick questioned farm subsidies Now Congress is considering whether to end the practice as part of a larger effort to reduce the cost of Medicare, the more than $900 billion program that provides healthcare to more than 2.3 million Texans 65 years of age or older.

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