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Advocacy Alert: Pressure relationship between operating rooms and other areas
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ASHE has heard reports of surveyors issuing findings regarding the pressure relationship of operating rooms (ORs) and sterile storage rooms and the restricted areas of o
Join AHA’s Sept. 13 Virtual Advocacy Day
Congress is returning to Washington, D.C., with a number of high-profile issues on their agenda, including funding the government.
Urge Your Lawmakers Not to Enact Proposals That Would Reduce Access to Care
A series of recent developments in Congress are adding significant urgency to AHA’s fight against site-neutral payment and other policies that would irreparably damage hospitals’ abilities to care for their communities, including a move to use rate setting that would offer commercial insurers a financial windfall at the expense of providers.
Action Alert: Medicaid DSH Dear Colleague Letter Needs Your Senators’ Signatures — Act Today
Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate are mobilizing behind an AHA-led effort to stop impending cuts to the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) program, which are scheduled to be enacted on Oct. 1, 2023.
ACT TODAY: Congressional Committees Discussing Site-neutral Payment Proposals Senate
Both the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee and House Ways and Means Committee are expected to discuss and mark-up proposed bills with site-neutral payment and other policies expected to significantly impact hospitals if enacted.
The Two Things Hospital Leaders Can Do Today to Help Stop Potential Medicare Cuts
Congress returns to Washington this week with a full legislative agenda before its scheduled August recess.
Act Now: Urge Your Representatives to Sign Bipartisan Letter to CMS Urging Agency to Boost Hospital IPPS Rates
Reps. Carol Miller, R-W.Va., and Brad Schneider, D-Ill., are asking their House colleagues to sign onto a letter urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reevaluate the agency’s fiscal year (FY) 2024 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) proposed rule and consider using its special exceptions and adjustments authority to revise the IPPS final rule, ensuring that hospitals have the resources they need to deliver high quality care.
Urge Lawmakers to Sign Bipartisan Letters to CMS on Hospital IPPS Rates
Sens. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., are asking their Senate colleagues to sign onto a letter urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to re-evaluate the agency’s fiscal year (FY) 2024 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) proposed rule and consider using its special exceptions and adjustments authority to revise the IPPS final rule, ensuring that hospitals have the resources they need to deliver high quality care.
ACT NOW: Senate Committee Hearing to Focus on Consolidation in Health Care
The Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing June 8 at 10 a.m. on issues that affect hospitals and health systems.
ACTION NEEDED: New Analysis Shows Site-neutral Proposals Would Reduce Medicare Payments to Hospitals by Billions
Congress continues to discuss a number of proposals that would enact additional site-neutral payment cuts. The AHA strongly opposes these proposals because they would reduce Medicare payments to hospitals and health systems, creating a significantly negative impact on the field’s financial sustainability and further contributing to Medicare’s chronic failure to cover the cost of caring for its beneficiaries.