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Hospitals Face Financial Pressures as Costs of Caring Continue to Surge

The AHA’s new Costs of Caring report highlights how hospitals and health systems continue to experience significant financial pressures that challenge their ability to provide 24/7 care for patients and communities.

New AHA report highlights mounting financial challenges for hospitals

The AHA May 2 released a new report highlighting how hospitals and health systems continue to experience significant financial pressures that challenge their ability to provide 24/7 care for patients and communities. 

AHA, ASHP urge congressional leaders to reject proposed site-neutral legislation

The AHA and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Nov. 14 urged House and Senate leaders to oppose any policies that fail to take into account the costs of safely providing drug administration services to the complex patients that hospitals serve.  

Judge rules that HHS must immediately halt unlawful reimbursement cuts to certain 340B hospitals for rest of 2022

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of the AHA, holding that HHS must immediately halt the departments’ unlawful cuts to outpatient reimbursement rates for the remainder of 2022 for certain hospitals that participate in the 340B Drug Pricing Program. 

AHA comments on CMS’ physician fee schedule proposed rule for CY 2021

Responding to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ physician fee schedule proposed rule for calendar year 2021, the AHA said it appreciates the agency’s effort to continue certain pandemic-era policies that have helped hospitals and health systems ensure access to care for patients during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Rule expanding use of health reimbursement arrangements finalized

The departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury yesterday finalized a rule that will allow employers to use health reimbursement arrangements to pay a portion of the premiums.

Supreme Court: HHS DSH policy change violates Medicare Act

The U.S. Supreme Court today affirmed a D.C. Circuit Court decision that the Department of Health and Human Services violated the Medicare Act when it changed Medicare’s reimbursement adjustment formula for disproportionate share hospitals without providing notice and opportunity to comment.