A proposal on a provider tax put hospitals and the Braun administration on opposing sides, though both acknowledge change was needed. (Getty Images)
A bill to reform a provider fee put newly minted administration officials on the opposite side of Indiana hospitals, as uncertainty at the federal level threatens to disrupt long-standing norms.
Mitch Roob, who leads the state’s Medicaid efforts, panned a proposal to change the Hospital Assessment Fee’s structure on Wednesday. HAF is levied against the providers to pay for the state’s portion of its Medicaid expansion population, otherwise known as the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) …