AHA Advocacy Alliance for Rural Hospitals
The AHA Advocacy Alliance for Rural Hospitals will highlight the work that the AHA is doing on behalf of its small and rural members and engage these members in garnering support for rural legislation and priorities on Capitol Hill. In the near-term, we will focus on the Medicare rural extenders that are expiring this year including ambulance add-ons, section 508 reclassification, outpatient hold-harmless, Medicare-dependent hospital program, the low-volume adjustment, and the grandfathering of technical component of pathology services. In addition, the Alliance will continue rural outreach to rural hospitals with a focus on Critical Access Hospital (CAH) priorities, direct supervision, hospital/Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)/Rural Health Center (RHC) relations, "Tweener" priorities, and the RCH demonstration.
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AHA RESOURCES
- Rural Hospital Advocacy Alliance Update Call Playback
- Rural Alliance Legislative Action Update: Senators Introduce S.R.26 - The Importance of Rural Health Access for American Communities, February 8, 2013
- Rural Alliance Legislative Action Alert: Support Needed for Extension of Outpatient "Hold Harmless" Payments, December 20, 2012
- Rural Alliance Legislative Action Alert: Senators Support Provisions of the Rural Hospital Access Act (S. 2620) in Upcoming Physician Payment Legislation, December 6, 2012
- Rural Alliance Legislative Alert: Ask Your Senators to Support Adding S. 2620 to Upcoming Physician Payment Legislation, October 23, 2012
- Rural Alliance Legislative Alert: Ask Your Lawmakers to Cosponsor S. 2620/H.R. 5943, the Rural Hospital Access Act, October 1, 2012
- AHA Rural Hospital Alert: The Rural Hospital Access Act, June 8, 2012
- AHA Rural Hospital Alert: The Rural Hospital Access Act, May 8, 2012
- AHA letter of support for the Rural Hospital Access Act (S. 2620)
- AHA letter of support for the Rural Hospital Access Act (H.R. 5943)
- AHA letter of support for expiring Medicare extenders
OTHER RESOURCES
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