Advisory
AHA Advisories provide urgent information for AHA members and the health care field, and actions they may need to take.
On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The following week, the President signed into law H.R. 4872, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, which made modifications to H.R. 3590. Both bills are referred to as…
On April 19, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) issued its hospital inpatient and long-term care hospital prospective payment system \(PPS\) proposed rule for federal fiscal year \(FY\) 2011.
AHA Regulatory Advisory on Interim Final Rule on Mental Health Parity
The federal government recently announced more than 00 million in funding to states for the development of state-wide health information exchanges \(HIEs\).
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On January 28 the Health Resources and Services Administration published a final rule expanding who must report information to the National Practitioner Data Bank \(NPDB\). The rule does not change the reporting requirements for hospitals. However, it requires additional entities, such as private…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) in the November 10 Federal Register published the calendar year \(CY\) 2010 final rule for the home health \(HH\) prospective payment system \(PPS\).
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) on Jan. 13 published a proposed definition of ")meaningful use") of electronic health records \(EHRs\). This rule would be used to determine which hospitals are eligible for health information technology \(HIT\) incentive payments under…