The House of Representatives is expected next week to 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 provisions. The bill also delays the Medicaid disproportionate share (DSH) cuts for two years.
The vote is expected next week, so this is a time-sensitive situation and hospital leaders need to act.
While the AHA supports the Medicaid DSH cut relief, the bill also includes significant payment cuts; it also would saddle hospitals and health systems with additional, burdensome administrative requirements.
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. The bill also delays the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) cuts for two years.
The vote is expected next week, so this is a time-sensitive situation and hospital leaders need to act.
The field must work together to ask Congress to remove and modify certain harmful provisions by amplifying the messages contained within AHA’s letter to members of Congress which outlines our concerns with the current proposed legislation.
Get up to speed on the issues in which AHA is engaged, due to their significant impact on hospitals and health systems.
The AHA Political Action Committee (AHAPAC) allows eligible hospital leaders to make voluntary donations toward the support of federal candidates of both political parties who support the hospital policy agenda. AHAPAC is bipartisan, working with state hospital associations and others. AHAPAC raised more than $4 million for the 2020 elections, making more than 1,000 different contributions.
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AHA Advocacy Alliance were created to help you engage your legislators on specific issues that have a direct impact on your ability to continue providing quality health services in your community. Alliance activities include special briefing calls and emails to keep members up-to-date on key developments, breakout sessions at AHA Advocacy Days, direct member outreach and other issue-specific resources.
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The Coalition to Protect America's Health Care was formed to protect access to the best quality health care for all Americans. We are a community of more than one million people who recognize the important role hospitals play in communities all over America, and advocate on their behalf to elected officials in Washington who too-often put funding for paitent care on chopping block.
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