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Senate Finance Committee leaders Friday released changes to the Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act that would eliminate impending Medicaid cuts to disproportionate share hospitals for two years.
The AHA today responded to a House Ways and Means Committee request for comments on priority topics as its Rural and Underserved Communities Health Task Force works to identify bipartisan policy options to improve care delivery and health outcomes in these communities.
In response to a government filing in a court case on site-neutral payment, the AHA, Association of American Medical Colleges and several member hospitals again urged the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to enforce its September ruling vacating a CMS rule reducing payments for鈥
The AHA joined by three other national organizations representing hospitals and health systems sued the federal government in federal district court, challenging last month's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 final rule mandating that hospitals disclose their privately negotiated rates鈥
A recent Medicare Payment Advisory Committee discussion on consolidation within the health care field 鈥減resented a myopic view of the purported dangers of hospital mergers to the exclusion of their many benefits,鈥 AHA said today in a letter to the commission.
Catherine Carruth, executive director at AHA鈥檚 American Society for Health Care Human Resources Administration, and Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president of AHA鈥檚 Physician Alliance, share six key takeaways from HR thought leaders.
A coalition of 14 health care organizations, including the AHA, today voiced support for the Accountable Care in Rural America Act, the companion to Senate legislation that would revise the benchmarking formula for the Medicare Shared Savings Program to ensure participating ACOs have an equal鈥
Next week marks the 20th anniversary of the landmark Institute of Medicine report 鈥淭o Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System.鈥
Robyn Begley, AHA senior vice president and chief nursing officer for its American Organization for Nursing Leadership, and Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA鈥檚 The Value Initiative, participated today in a panel discussion sponsored by the National Academy of Medicine鈥檚 Committee on the Future鈥
The National Center for Healthcare Leadership last night presented its 2019 Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award to Rodney Hochman, M.D., president and CEO of Renton, Wash.,-based Providence St. Joseph Health and chair-elect designate of the AHA Board of Trustees.