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Fact Sheet: Medicare Sequester Relief Extension Needed for Health Providers
AHA highlights the need to suspend Medicare sequester cuts for healthcare providers in this fact sheet on Medicare sequestration relief extension.
Fact Sheet: Statutory PAYGO Sequester Relief Needed for Health Providers
The Issue
The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath have resulted in historic challenges for hospitals and health systems an
AHA urges Congress to provide additional COVID-19 relief
AHA today urged Congress to provide immediate additional support for hospitals and health systems as COVID-19 challenges persist.
Fact Sheet: Medicare Sequester Relief Extension Needed for Health Providers During COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in historic challenges for hospitals and health systems and the
communities they serve, placing unprecedented stress on the entire health care system and its financing.
Coalition ad urges Congress to stop sequester cuts
The Coalition to Protect America’s Health Care, whose members include the AHA, today launched a television ad and digital campaign urging Congress to stop the forthcoming Medicare sequester cuts and statutory PAYGO sequester.
AHA, others urge Congress to prevent sequester, PAYGO cuts
The AHA and seven other national organizations representing hospitals and health systems today urged congressional leaders to act before yearend to extend the moratorium on Medicare sequester cuts and prevent the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go sequester from taking effect.
Fact Sheet: Statutory PAYGO Sequester Relief Needed for Health Providers
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in historic challenges for hospitals and health systems and the communities they serve. This has placed unprecedented stress on the entire health care system and its financing.
Senate Medicare Sequestration Moratorium Advocacy
The Senate is expect to soon consider bipartisan legislation introduced last week by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, that would prevent the 2% across-the-board cut to all Medicare payments, known as sequestration, from taking effect during the COVID-19 public health emergency. The AHA is asking its members to immediately help muster support in the Senate — particularly among Republicans — for the Medicare Sequester Relief Act (S. 748).
Medicare Sequestration Moratorium Advocacy
To spur lawmakers’ action on this issue, AHA is asking its members to urge their elected officials to support bills in the House and Senate that would extend the moratorium beyond April 1. It is critical that we gain bipartisan support for this effort, as it will require at least 60 votes to pass in the Senate.
Video from AHA Virtual Advocacy Day: March 16, 2021
This video includes an AHA Virtual Advocacy Day presentation on legislation to secure the extension of the Medicare sequestration moratorium set to expire on April 1, 2021.