CMS terminates Medicare, Medicaid payments for Parkview hospital
The federal government has filed documents with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Portland stating the Parkview Adventist Medical Center in Brunswick is no longer eligible to receive Medicare and Medicaid service payments after terminating its inpatient services on June 18.
The Forecaster reported the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services asserts that because Parkview no longer provides inpatient care, it "no longer meets the definition of a 'hospital,' as outlined in ... the Social Security Act."
As part of its filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on June 16, Parkview submitted a plan to consolidate all its inpatient and emergency at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick, effective June 18, but indicated that it would continue to utilize the Parkview campus for physician practices, a walk-in clinic, as well as radiology, laboratory, ambulatory testing and surgery, oncology, hematology, infusion services, physical, occupational and speech therapy services, and community health and wellness programs.
Its Chapter 11 plan also indicated that Mid Coast Health Services would purchase “certain assets” and assume “certain liabilities” of Parkview but would preserve the faith-based Adventist health care mission on the Parkview campus under a new entity, to be called the Mid Coast – Parkview Health System.
The Forecaster reported that Parkview has filed a motion to compel CMS to continue Medicare and Medicaid payments for outpatient services and stated that if CMS’s denial of those payments is allowed to stand, it could force Parkview to shut down the remaining services at its Brunswick campus.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Peter Cary on July 24 denied Parkview's motion to compel CMS to continue making payments, the newspaper reported, but Parkview’s attorney, George Marcus of Marcus Clegg and Mistretta indicated the hospital will pursue “administrative remedies” through CMS.
Parkview also disputes the claim filed with the bankruptcy court by Central Maine Healthcare Corp. in Lewiston asserting that the hospital owes it and its Lewiston hospital affiliate more than $13 million.
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