Advisory

AHA Advisories provide urgent information for AHA members and the health care field, and actions they may need to take.

AHA Regulatory Advisory: Medicare ESRD PPS Proposed Rule for CY 2012
AHA Quality Advisory: Updated Readmission and Mortality Rate Data on Hospital Compare
AHA Regulatory Advisory: MEDICARE PHYSICIAN FEE SCHEDULE PROPOSED RULE FOR CY 2012
AHA Regulatory Advisory: Home Health PPS: The Proposed Rule For CY 2012
AHA Regulatory Advisory: Proposed Insurance Reform Rules
AHA Regulatory Advisory: Medicare Outpatient PPS and ASCL Proposed Rule for CY 2012
On June 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published in the Federal Register a proposed rule with changes to the physician electronic prescribing (e-Prescribing) Incentive Program.
On June 6, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) issued a final ruleoutlining its planned implementation of non-payment for Medicaid healthcare-associated conditions.
The Department of Health and Human Services' \(HHS\) Office for Civil Rights issued in the May 31 Federal Register a proposed rule to modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 \(HIPAA\) privacy rule's provisions related to accounting of disclosures.