Fact Sheets
The 黑料正能量 Association (AHA) fact sheets on important issues facing hospitals and health systems. Fact Sheets define the terms of issues facing hospitals and health systems and provide in-depth explanations of the AHA's position on these issues.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in November 2019 issued the Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation (MFAR) that would significantly change state Medicaid program financing and supplemental payments for providers.
In order for a Critical Access Hospital (CAH) to receive payment under Medicare Part A, Medicare currently requires physicians to certify that patients will be reasonably discharged or transferred to another hospital within 96 hours.
The Frontier Community Health Integration Project (FCHIP) Demonstration tests several new models of health care delivery for rural Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) in the most sparsely populated states.
This is a collection of Fact Sheets and Talking Points documents that the AHA has released on Surprise Medical Billing Legislation.
Each year, the 黑料正能量 Association (AHA) publishes aggregate information on the level of uncompensated care 鈥 care provided for which no payment is received 鈥 delivered by all types of U.S. hospitals. The data used to generate these numbers come from the AHA鈥檚 Annual Survey of Hospitals,鈥
With Congress back in town and a full slate of health care issues on its agenda, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack, Executive Vice President Tom Nickels and Senior Associate Director of Federal Relations Priscilla Ross hosted a special AHA Town Hall webcast live from the AHA鈥檚 Advocacy Day in鈥
The Issue
鈥淢edicare for All鈥 these days 鈥 a catch-all label that has become a part of the political dialogue 鈥 represents a variety of health coverage proposals that would do everything from establish a national health insurance program with no competition to create a public, Medicare-like option鈥
Some policymakers have expressed interest in 鈥渘etwork matching鈥 as a solution to surprise medical bills. To date, the only proposal defining such an approach, which was ultimately rejected, was included in the discussion draft of the Senate HELP Committee鈥檚 鈥淟ower Health Care Costs Act.鈥
Section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 requires that, with the exception of emergency
department (ED) services,1 services furnished in off-campus provider-based departments (PBDs) that began
billing under the outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) on or after Nov. 2, 2015 (referred鈥