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AHA Member Advisory on Upcoming Release of Hospital Price Transparency Study

AHA expects the release of a new price transparency report next week. See AHA resources to prepare your organization’s response to the study findings.

Advocacy Issue: Transparency and Competition

Hospitals and health systems have made important progress in adopting federal price transparency requirements that require they both publicly post machine-readable files of a wide range of rate information and provide more consumer-friendly displays of pricing information for at least 300 shoppable services.
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AHA Statement on “Health Care Spending in the United States: Unsustainable for Patients, Employers, and Taxpayers”

The AHA shares comments on the topic of national health expenditures before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health .
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AHA Urges Congress to Eliminate Medicaid DSH Cuts, Reject Site-neutral Payments

AHA comments regarding the ongoing government funding discussion, AHA Urges Congress to eliminate Medicaid DSH cuts, reject Site-neutral payments.
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ACT NOW: House Could Vote Next Week on Bill that Would Cut Billions to Hospitals and Jeopardize Access to Care

The House of Representatives as soon as next week could consider the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act (H.R. 5378), a bill that includes site-neutral payment cuts and detrimental provisions focused on hospital price transparency, among other issues.
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AHA Responds to the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act (H.R. 5378)

AHA comments regarding provisions in the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act (H.R. 5378).
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ENGAGEMENT NEEDED: House Bill Includes Permanent Payment Cuts to Hospitals

The House of Representatives is expected to consider the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act (H.R. 5378) next week, a bill that includes site-neutral payment cuts and detrimental provisions focused on hospital price transparency, among other issues.
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AHA Comments on House Proposed "Lower Costs, More Transparency Act"

AHA comments regarding H.R. 5378, Lower Costs, More Transparency Act, provisions.

AHA Statement of Record for House Ways and Means Committee July 26, 2023

The American Hospital Association would like to provide feedback on sections of H.R. 4822, the “Health Care Price Transparency Act of 2023,” as well as H.R. 3284, the “Providers and Payers COMPETE Act.”
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Urge Your Lawmakers Not to Enact Proposals That Would Reduce Access to Care

A series of recent developments in Congress are adding significant urgency to AHA’s fight against site-neutral payment and other policies that would irreparably damage hospitals’ abilities to care for their communities, including a move to use rate setting that would offer commercial insurers a financial windfall at the expense of providers.