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Talking Points: Provider Relief Fund Reporting Requirements
This document requests action to spur Congress to fully reinstate June reporting requirements for the COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund during its ‘lame-duck session.’
Talking Points on Surprise Medical Billing Legislation
Overall Talking Points on Surprise Billing Solutions: Patients should be protected from surprise bills. They should not be balance billed for emergency services or for out-of-network services obtained in any in network facility when they reasonably could have assumed that the providers were in-network with their health plan.
Disclosure Rule Lawsuit – Talking Points
These talking points are intended to help understand and explain why the hospital field has filed the lawsuit challenging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) final rule requiring disclosure of individually negotiated contracts with commercial health insurers and why we remain hopeful CMS will change direction to benefit patients.
Talking Points: Medicaid DSH in Build Back Better Act
Hospitals and health systems oppose Section 30608 of the Build Back Better Act, (H.R. 5376), which would impose a 12.5% cut in Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) to states that have not expanded Medicaid. Specifically, in the current version of the bill, the 12 states that failed to expand their Medicaid program face reductions in Medicaid DSH payments and federal funding for uncompensated care pools.
Workforce Talking Points January 19, 2022
A recent opinion video in The New York Times presents a distorted view about the workforce challenges facing hospitals and health systems as they continue to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The following messages may be helpful in responding to questions you receive about the video or when talking about the issue with your teams or the public.