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AHA Comment Letter on CMS’ Skilled Nursing Facility Proposed Payment Rule FY 2025

As such, AHA is concerned that CMS’ payment updates, in addition to increased requirements on skilled-nursing facilities (SNFs), will exacerbate their, as well as hospitals’, financial difficulties. Therefore, we request that CMS more closely examine its process for forecasting and providing market basket updates.

AHA RFI Response to CMS on Medicare Advantage Data and Oversight

Timely and accurate information on Medicare Advantage plan performance and compliance with existing CMS regulations is critical to ensuring that those enrolled in MA plans are not unfairly subjected to more restrictive rules and requirements than Traditional Medicare, which are contrary to the intent of the MA program and run afoul of federal rules.

AHA Comments on Inpatient Psychiatric Facility FY 2025 Proposed Payment Rule

While we are grateful for the chance to provide feedback on the revisions to the IPF PPS as well as the development of an IPF patient assessment instrument (PAI), we urge CMS to proceed on the latter with more caution and less haste. We are concerned that CMS’ proposed market basket update is inadequate to ensure continued support of the vital services IPFs provide to their communities.
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AHA Support of Senate Bill Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act of 2024

(AHA) voices support for the Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act of 2024 (S.4350) to extend the acute care hospital-at-home (H@H) program for five years.
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AHA, FAH Request Comment Period Extension for Proposed Mandatory Bundled Payment Model

The AHA and FAH comments on the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) proposals in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule for fiscal year (FY) 2025.
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AHA Letter of Support for the Telehealth Modernization Act (H.R. 7623)

The AHA voices support of the Telehealth Modernization Act (H.R. 7623).
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AHA Letter of Support for the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024

The AHA voices support of the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024 (S. 3565).

Letter to CMS Administrator Brooks-LaSure on the Higher Spending on Two Catheter Codes and the Impact on ACOs

The undersigned organizations write to request that accountable care organizations (ACOs) are held harmless from anomalous Medicare spending outside their control, such as the aberrant billing for catheters experienced in 2023.