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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 .
Health Plan Accountability
Commercial health plan abuses must be addressed to ensure fair coverage for patients and providers. The AHA has worked to hold health plans accountable through letters, statements, white papers, member updates and earned media.
CMS Finalizes Rules to Standardize Prior Authorization Processes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Jan. 17 finalized new regulations intended to streamline and reduce the burden associated with health plan prior authorization processes, promote greater transparency into medical necessity criteria, and improve the electronic exchange of health care information.
ACT NOW: Congress Is Considering Billions in Cuts to Hospital Services that Could Harm Patient Care
Ask your lawmakers not to include any site-neutral payment cuts as part of a legislative package that would fund the government; first funding deadline is Jan. 19
AHA Supports CMS' Health Insurance Marketplace Proposed Rules
The Honorable Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesHubert H. Humphrey Building
AHA Comments on the Proposed Rule to Establish Disincentives for Providers Found to Have Committed Information Blocking
AHA provides comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on their proposed rule to establish disincentives for providers found to have committed information blocking.
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.
AHA Expresses Support for the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4531)
AHA expresses support for the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4531).
Fact Sheet: Medicaid DSH Program
The Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) program provides essential financial assistance to hospitals that care for our nation’s most vulnerable populations — children, impoverished, disabled and elderly. These hospitals also provide critical community services, such as trauma and burn care, maternal and child health, high-risk neonatal care and disaster preparedness resources.
Access and Health Coverage
Every day the caregivers in America’s hospitals see how not having coverage stops people from getting the right care, at the right time, in the right place. That’s why hospitals are helping people get health coverage and ensuring access to essential services.