Bill Horton, co-chair of the firm’s Healthcare Industry Team, was quoted in the Birmingham Business Journal article “Alabama Hospitals Could Get Boost from New CMS Proposals” about the potential effects in Alabama of new payment models from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Bill comments on how adjustments in wage indexes for hospitals could increase the quality of care in rural hospitals by reducing unnecessary hospitalizations, though healthcare consumers in Alabama might be slow to adopt these changes.