Under Duress: CMS Prepares to Hit Hospitals

National Public Radio (NPR) is reporting that it has come into possession of “internal documents” drafted by individuals at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which indicate that the agency “is preparing to crack down aggressively on hospitals.”  The impending action will specifically be against those facilities who failed to report “complete COVID-19 data daily into a federal data system,” as mandated earlier this summer by the Trump administration.