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How Health Care Providers Can Lead the Empowered Patient Recording
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The age of consumer empowerment has arrived in the health care industry. Medical patients are now acting like informed customers, using digital to get what they want when they want it -- a phenomenon known as "the Uber effect." Medical providers have a strong opportunity to respond to the empowered patient by forming a more collaborative, intimate relationship built on location marketing.
AHA Statement for Record Before the House Ways and Means Committee - September 19, 2023
AHA shares the hospital field’s experience with implementation of the No Surprises Act (NSA) before the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Will Walgreens, Walmart Value-based Care Plays Pay Off?
Walgreens last week entered into a strategic partnership with Pearl Health, a technology platform for primary care physicians in value-based care arrangements. Just days earlier, Bloomberg reported that Walmart was exploring the purchase of a majority stake in ChenMed, a value-based care organization of more than 125 primary care clinics in 15 states focused on treating older adults. The respective moves have some analysts questioning just how much the retailers could gain from these initiatives given that the companies have had difficulty to date showing positive financial returns for their hefty health care investments.
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.
House leaders urged to remove certain provisions from price transparency bill
AHA today voiced support for a provision in the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act (H.R. 5378) that would suspend for two years the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital reductions scheduled to go into effect on Oct. 1, but urged House leaders to reject another provision that would permanently implement reductions to Medicare payments for drug administration services in off-campus hospital outpatient departments.
ENGAGEMENT NEEDED: House Bill Includes Permanent Payment Cuts to Hospitals
The House of Representatives is expected to consider the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act (H.R. 5378) next week, a bill that includes site-neutral payment cuts and detrimental provisions focused on hospital price transparency, among other issues.
AHA Comments on House Proposed "Lower Costs, More Transparency Act"
AHA comments regarding H.R. 5378, Lower Costs, More Transparency Act, provisions.
AHA submits comments on CY 2024 OPPS proposed rule, including price transparency
In comments submitted today, AHA expressed strong concern about the proposed hospital outpatient market basket update, noting it “does not capture either the unprecedented inflationary environment or the other persistent financial headwinds hospitals and health systems are experiencing.”
House committees poised to introduce health care bill
Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Education & Workforce Committees have released a summary of draft legislation the committees could introduce as soon as this week.
CMS reiterates IDR suspension in response to Texas court ruling
In response to an Aug. 24 ruling in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas setting aside certain regulations implementing the No Surprises Act’s independent dispute resolution process, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reiterated its earlier suspension of the IDR process, including the ability to initiate new disputes.