TMH to get more in Medicare reimbursements

WARREN — It came down to two-tenths of a mile.

Trumbull Memorial Hospital in Warren will get an estimated $1.2 million increase a year in reimbursements for Medicare patient care because it is 14.8 miles from the West Farmington Village boundary, not 15 miles.

Hospital officials had not realized it, but last year it was determined that there is a route that is 14.8 miles from TMH to West Farmington, which is part of the Cleveland district, said Kathy Kendall, director of reimbursement for Forum Health.

West Farmington, a village, is located in the center of Farmington Township in Trumbull County’s extreme northwest corner.

To be eligible to switch districts, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requires that a hospital be within 15 miles of the reimbursement district into which it wants to transfer.

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