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AHA Letter Responding to RFI on Selling Health Insurance Across State Lines

The AHA supports the administration’s goal of expanding access to coverage and increasing competition between health plans, but does not believe that efforts to facilitate the sale of insurance across state lines “will achieve either of those goals in a meaningful way,” the association said today, responding to a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services request for input on how to enhance insurers’ ability to sell individual health insurance across state lines.
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AHA Statement Before the House Rules Committee Re: Medicare for All Act of 2019

Statement of the American Hospital Association for the Committee on Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives
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Special Bulletin: CMS Issues Final Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2020

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) April 18 issued a final rule implementing the standards governing health plan issuers and the Health Insurance Marketplaces for 2020.
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Engaging Health Care Volunteers to Pursue the Triple Aim

Introduction Health care is changing as never before.
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AHA Submits Comments to Senate Price Transparency Initiative

The AHA Friday submitted comments to Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Tom Carper (D-DE), Todd Young (R-IN) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) as they develop legislation to improve price transparency in the health care market and lower costs.
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Special Bulletin: CMS and Treasury Loosen Rules for States to Obtain Section 1332 Coverage Waivers

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Treasury Department October 22, issued updated guidance for states seeking a Section 1332 waiver of certain Affordable Care Act (ACA) requir
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AHA Offers Strategies for Reducing Health Care Costs

Hospitals and health systems understand the importance of making health care more affordable for everyone and they “have been tackling the issue head on, taking steps to redesign care and implement operational efficiencies,” AHA told Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., in response to a letter seeking input on reducing health care costs.
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AHA and FAH to members of Congress: Regarding Surprise Medical Bills

The AHA and Federation of American Hospitals “strongly believe that any public policy solution to resolve surprise bills must protect patients by prohibiting balance billing and by limiting patients’ cost-sharing to an in-network amount,” the organizations Dec. 21 told members of Congress.
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Dept AHA Fact Sheet for Sunshine Calls

When you explain to a patient about the Sunshine Call Program and ask if he or she would like to participate by signing permission and giving out his or her contact number, a few guidelines might h