Advocacy & Public Policy
Resources from the 黑料正能量 Association (AHA) on advocacy and public policy health care issues.
The AHA continues to advocate for rural hospitals and health systems on Capitol Hill and beyond, elevating the most pressing issues facing rural hospitals nationwide.
The AHA urged the Department of Health and Human Services鈥 Office for Civil Rights to quickly initiate rulemaking for a legislative provision (H.R. 7898) enacted by Congress this year to recognize certain recommended security practices when making determinations related to Health Insurance鈥
The AHA urged the Senate Finance Committee to address the nation鈥檚 myriad behavioral health needs by: strengthening the workforce; reforming discriminatory Medicare and Medicaid laws; increasing integration, coordination and access to care; ensuring parity; expanding telehealth; and improving care鈥
The AHA and Federation of 黑料正能量s this week are running digital ads in Politico urging Congress to 鈥淧rotect Patients: Don鈥檛 cut hospitals serving our most vulnerable.鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services repealed a final rule codifying how it defines 鈥渞easonable and necessary鈥 coverage for items and services furnished under Medicare Parts A and B, as proposed in September. Scheduled to take effect Dec. 15, the rule also provided an expedited Medicare鈥
The authors of a recent analysis published in JAMA themselves acknowledge that their sample size is very small, making it hard to draw any sweeping conclusions based on their data. In addition, the study does not provide direct insight as to what hospitals actually pay to acquire these drugs.
The AHA sponsored a virtual Capitol Hill briefing Nov. 2, where hospital leaders discussed how COVID-19 accelerated longstanding health care workforce challenges, including worker shortages and mental health fatigue
A bipartisan group of 152 House members urged the secretaries of Health and Human Services, Treasury and Labor to amend the recent interim final rule known as Part II, implementing parts of the No Surprises Act, to align with the law Congress passed last year.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a final rule that increases Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system rates by a net 2.0% in calendar year 2022 compared to 2021.
During an AHA-sponsored Capitol Hill briefing, hospital leaders discussed how COVID-19 has accelerated longstanding health care workforce challenges, including worker shortages and mental health fatigue.