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Use Model Letter to Submit Comments on Interim Final Rule on Requirements Related to Surprise Billing, Part 2
The departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury, along with the Office of Personnel Management, Sept. 30 released “Part 2” of regulations implementing the No Surprises Act. The AHA has developed a model comment letter that hospitals and health systems can use to assist with submitting their own comments to the agencies.
Action Alert on House Dear Colleague Letter on Surprise Medical Billing Regulation
Please contact your representatives today and urge them to sign onto a “Dear Colleague” letter circulating in the House.
Urge Congress Not to Include Harmful Surprise Medical Billing Proposals as Part of Year-end Legislative Package
As Congress continues to negotiate a year-end spending package and more COVID-19 relief, we’re continuing to keep you updated on the latest issues. This is our third Action Alert related to the lame-duck session, and information and resources related to our priority issues are included below.
Urge Your Representatives and Senators to Support Hospitals and Health Systems during ‘Lame-duck Session’
Congress is back in Washington, D.C., for its “lame-duck” session, in which lawmakers will take up pressing, end-of-year business. Funding for the federal government, as well as other key health care provisions, are set to expire Dec. 11. It is imperative that we work to ensure that hospitals and health systems — and their front-line caregivers — receive additional federal support as we continue to navigate public health and financial challenges due to COVID-19.
Action Alert: Urge Your Lawmakers to Support Ways and Means Committee’s Surprise Medical Billing Legislation
Two House committees – Ways and Means, and Education and Labor – this week advanced separate legislation to address surprise medical bills. These pieces of legislation also are different from a December agreement between leaders from the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and House Energy and Commerce Committee on legislation to address surprise medical bills.
Action Alert: Urge Your Representative to Cosponsor Surprise Medical Billing Legislation
Urge Your Representative to Cosponsor Surprise Medical Billing Legislation Approved by the House Ways and Means Committee
Action Alert: Contact Your Legislators on Surprise Billing Legislation to be Marked Up in House Committees
Two House committees – Ways and Means, and Education and Labor – this week will mark up their own legislation to address surprise medical bills. The Ways and Means markup is Feb.
Action Alert: Urge Your Lawmakers to Support Patients and Hospitals on Key Issues, December 2, 2019
As Congress enters the home stretch for 2019, they are considering a number of key hospital and health system issues as part of year-end legislation.
House and Senate Leaders Announce Compromise ‘Surprise Billing’ Legislation
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr.
Action Alert: Urge Your Lawmakers to Support Hospitals and Patients on Medicaid DSH and Surprise Billing as Congress Considers Year-end Legislation
Reject any cuts to hospital services as pay-fors