Wax: Congress must lower hospital costs for Medicare patients

Wax: Congress must lower hospital costs for Medicare patients

President Trump’s tax bill extension is making its way through Congress, and lawmakers are desperately trying to minimize its potentially negative impacts on high-risk American patients. Yet senators can still pursue other avenues to help patients before the bill becomes law. Senators can start by correcting a decades-old Medicare loophole exploited by the hospital industry. This loophole allows hospitals and outpatient departments to charge mor…