At a roundtable in Atlanta on Monday, Seema Verma, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, and U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler heard from health care leaders in Georgia about the state of the pandemic on the ground.
Hospital executives urged the federal officials to keep them in mind financially as more federal relief is considered, since they’re seeing higher coronavirus numbers than they ever have.
Jonathan Lewin, CEO of Emory Healthcare, said that his system has racked up $15 million in charges for uninsured COVID-19 care that they’ve only seen “a little bit” of which reimbursed.
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