Action Alert
American Hospital Association (AHA) Action Alerts notify members about advocacy opportunities on health care issues and legislation.
The Senate draft budget reconciliation bill is expected to be introduced for a vote by mid-week. The time to act is now.
AHA members across the country are reaching out to their lawmakers this week, both in Washington, D.C., and in their home states, to deliver key messages on the impact of the proposals in the House and Senate versions of the budget reconciliation draft legislation.
Please contact your senators and urge them to oppose any efforts to further weaken SDP and provider tax provisions as passed by the House. Changes under consideration by the Senate would deteriorate hospital Medicaid reimbursement rates and threaten access for all patients.
As the next step in the budget reconciliation process, the Senate is taking up the House-passed version of the budget reconciliation bill. Senate key committees, Senate leaders and others are considering changes to the House version.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee late last night released bill text in advance of its May 13 markup. As part of a larger budget process, the committee has been instructed to reduce deficits by $880 billion, with significant Medicaid cuts being considered.
Congressional committees have begun marking up their portions of a reconciliation bill to enact key pieces of President Trump’s agenda.
With your senators and representatives home in their states and districts for the next two weeks, please reach out to your lawmakers and urge them to reject funding cuts to Medicaid and other health care programs as part of reconciliation bill.
Please ask your senators and representatives to prevent Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payment cuts from taking effect; extend enhanced low-volume adjustment and Medicare-dependent hospital programs that expand access to care in rural areas; and extend telehealth and hospital-at-home…
Lawmakers have returned to Washington, D.C., to tackle end-of-the-year funding needs. Quick action is needed this week to address the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payment reductions.
Before the lame-duck session ends and the 118th Congress adjourns, it is essential that federal lawmakers understand the challenges hospitals and health systems face and what is at stake for the patients and communities they represent.