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Hospital Price Transparency Final Rule
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Hospital Price Transparency final rule goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2021. The AHA and three other national organizations sued the federal government challenging the final rule. The case is pending in a federal appeals court.
AHA, AMA Urge Appeals Court to Invalidate NSA Dispute Resolution Process
The AHA and American Medical Association urge the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to affirm a district court decision that invalidated a No Surprises Act final rule that favors insurers in the independent dispute resolution process and threatens serious harm to the law’s patient protection goals.
Amicus Brief: AHA, AMA Brief Supports No Surprises Act Dispute Resolution Challenge
The AHA and American Medical Association friend-of-the-court brief in support of a Texas Medical Association lawsuit claiming the revised independent dispute resolution process for determining payment for out-of-network services under the No Surprises Act skews the arbitration results in commercial insurers’ favor in ways that violate the compromise Congress reached in the Act.
Defendants’ Supplemental Brief Re: Vacate Surprise Medical Billing Rule
The federal government tells the court it anticipates issuing a final rule by early this summer, which is later than the May time period it had been expected.
AMA/AHA Supplemental Brief Re: Vacate Surprise Medical Billing Rule
The AHA and American Medical Association urge the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to act as quickly as possible to hold unlawful and vacate all provisions they are challenging in the federal government’s interim final rule on surprise medical billing, which took effect in January.
Hospital and Physician Groups File Lawsuit Over No Surprises Act Final Rules That Jeopardize Patient Access to Care
Plaintiffs American Medical Association (“AMA”), American Hospital Association (“AHA”), Renown Health, UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc. (“UMass Memorial Health”), Stuart S. Squires, M.D., and Victor F. Kubit, M.D., by and through their attorneys, bring this action for declaratory and injunctive relief against defendants the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Labor, Department of the Treasury, Office of Personnel Management, and the current heads of those agencies in their official capacities.
Reply in Support of Appellants’ Emergency Motion for Stay Re. Disclosure of Negotiated Charges, Dec, 24, 2020
ARGUED AND SUBMITTED ON OCTOBER 15, 2020
Appellee U.S. Opposition to Emergency Motion to Stay
Defendant respectfully opposes plaintiffs’ emergency motion for stay. Without having moved first in the district court (contra Fed. R. App. P. 8(a)), and less than two weeks before the hospital-price-transparency rule is to take effect on January 1, 2021, plaintiffs ask that this Court “stay the enforcement of the [rule] for six months.” Mot. 13. That extraordinary request should be denied.
Hospitals’ Emergency Motion for Stay Re: Disclosure of Negotiated Rates
Hospitals’ Emergency Motion for Stay Re: Disclosure of Negotiated Rates
Hospital Group Responds to Government’s Notice About Recent Guidance (Oct. 2, 2020)
Hospital Group Responds to Government’s Notice About Recent Guidance (Oct. 2, 2020)