Advisory
AHA Advisories provide urgent information for AHA members and the health care field, and actions they may need to take.
The Internal Revenue Service \(IRS\) on December 20 released a final revised version of Form 990 and 16 related schedules, including Schedule H, designated solely for taxexempt hospitals.
The guidance offers insights about complying with the new Lobbying Disclosure Act \(LDA\) requirements, using hypotheticals to illustrate how lobbyists and organizations, such as hospitals and hospital associations, that employ or otherwise engage lobbyists might meet the requirements of the LDA.
The Department of Health and Human Services \(HHS\) recently released its report to Congress on value-based purchasing.
The Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor \(RAC\) program is authorized by Congress to identify improper Medicare payments - both overpayments and underpayments. RACs are paid on a contingency fee basis, receiving a percentage of the improper payments they identify and collect. RACs currently operate…
On November 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released the outpatient prospective payment system \(OPPS\) final rule for calendar year 2008.
The Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor \(RAC\) program is authorized by Congress to identify improper Medicare payments - both overpayments and underpayments. RACs are paid on a contingency fee basis, receiving a percentage of the improper payments they identify and collect. RACs currently operate…
On September 5, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) issued the ")Phase III") final rule, the last of its three-part set of rules implementing the 1995 expansion of the physician self-referral ban beyond clinical laboratory services to include 10 other ")designated health care…
On September 7, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released revised Critical Access Hospital \(CAH\) interpretive guidelines regarding rebuilding and relocating facilities, effective immediately.