Advisory
AHA Advisories provide urgent information for AHA members and the health care field, and actions they may need to take.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus \(D-MT\) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley \(R-IA\) on April 28 released a set of policy options for transforming the health care delivery system to improve patient care and reduce health care costs.
Since President Obama on February 17 signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act \(ARRA\), which provides approximately 9 billion in funding to help hospitals and physicians adopt health information technology \(HIT\), we have received numerous inquiries from AHA members about how…
This advisory aims to provide an overview of the permanent RAC program. It describes the guidelines RACs must follow, the requirements for hospitals and the timeline for the national rollout of the program.
This advisory provides an overview of Fair Credit Reporting Act \(FCRA\) and its applications. Hospitals commitment to caring includes helping a patient determine his or her options for financial assistance and improving the billing process. One of the tools some hospitals have considered using to…
The AHA anticipates a significant increase in audit activity by contractors for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in 2009 and beyond as a result of the transition of the hospital review function from Quality Improvement Organizations to contracted fiscal intermediaries and Medicare…
On February 17, President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 \(the Recovery Act\). The 87 billion legislation includes measures to preserve and improve health care, modernize infrastructure, enhance energy independence, expand educational opportunities, and…
On January 15, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services released a final rule modifying the medical data code set standards and adopting ICD-10-CM for coding of patient diagnoses and ICD-10-PCS for coding of hospital procedures.
this Advisory is intended to share additional information on the Medicare payment incentives included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act \(H.R. 1\) for hospitals that adopt electronic health records and certain health information technology \(IT\). It also provides a link to an MS Excel…