Action Alert
American Hospital Association (AHA) Action Alerts notify members about advocacy opportunities on health care issues and legislation.
The House of Representatives as soon as next week could consider the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act (H.R. 5378), a bill that includes site-neutral payment cuts and detrimental provisions focused on hospital price transparency, among other issues.
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The House of Representatives is expected to consider the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act (H.R. 5378) next week, a bill that includes site-neutral payment cuts and detrimental provisions focused on hospital price transparency, among other issues.
Congress is returning to Washington, D.C., with a number of high-profile issues on their agenda, including funding the government.
A series of recent developments in Congress are adding significant urgency to AHA’s fight against site-neutral payment and other policies that would irreparably damage hospitals’ abilities to care for their communities, including a move to use rate setting that would offer commercial insurers a…
Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate are mobilizing behind an AHA-led effort to stop impending cuts to the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) program, which are scheduled to be enacted on Oct. 1, 2023.
Both the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee and House Ways and Means Committee are expected to discuss and mark-up proposed bills with site-neutral payment and other policies expected to significantly impact hospitals if enacted.
Congress returns to Washington this week with a full legislative agenda before its scheduled August recess.
Reps. Carol Miller, R-W.Va., and Brad Schneider, D-Ill., are asking their House colleagues to sign onto a letter urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reevaluate the agency’s fiscal year (FY) 2024 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) proposed rule and consider…
The Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing June 8 at 10 a.m. on issues that affect hospitals and health systems.