Medicare
Medicare will cover new Alzheimer’s drugs that receive traditional approval from the Food and Drug Administration when a beneficiary is diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease dementia and has a physician participating in a registry with an appropriate clinical team and…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services will host a June 27 webinar on its Review Choice Demonstration for Inpatient Rehabilitation Services, which will begin Aug. 21 in Alabama and expand to additional states at an undetermined date.
In a letter submitted to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations for a hearing on challenges implementing value-based and alternative payment models under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, AHA encouraged certain statutory and regulatory…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services June 8 announced plans to test a new Medicare and Medicaid primary care model in eight states beginning in July 2024.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services June 7 finalized a policy governing the treatment of Medicare Part C days when calculating a hospital’s disproportionate patient percentage for discharges prior to Oct. 1, 2013, in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Azar v. Allina…
Americans depend on hospitals providing 24/7 access to care. Hospitals serve all patients, regardless of ability to pay. Hospitals serve as a safety net for vulnerable populations. Hospitals must have the resources to respond to local disasters. Medicare fails to pay its fair share of these costs.…
Over 30 organizations, including the AHA, urged Congress to swiftly pass the Saving Access to Laboratory Services Act (S. 1000/H.R. 2377), bipartisan legislation that would update Medicare’s payment system for laboratory services to make it predictable and sustainable.
As the House Energy and Commerce Committee prepares to consider a legislative provision (H.R. 3561) that would reduce payments for drug administration services furnished in off-campus provider-based departments, the AHA and other national hospital groups reiterated to committee leaders their…
May 22, 2023
The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services announced plans to start an AHA-opposed demonstration for inpatient rehabilitation facilities Aug. 21 in Alabama and expand it to additional states at an undetermined date.