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CMS proposes increasing Medicare hospital outpatient department payment rates by 2.4% in CY 2026
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 15 issued a proposed rule (https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2025-13360/medicare-and-medicaid-programs-hospital-outpatient-prospective-payment-and-ambulatory-surgical) that would increase Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system rates by a net 2.4% in calendar year 2026 compared to 2025.
AHA Comments on HHS RFI on MAHA Initiative
AHA comments on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services request for information to ensure lawful regulation and unleash innovation to promote better health.
Regulatory Relief to Promote Domestic Production of Critical Medicines
Directs the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration to review and eliminate any duplicative or unnecessary requirements in regulations and guidance pertaining to the development of domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing within 180 days.
Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation
Requires agencies to identify at least 10 regulations to be repealed for each new regulation proposed or promulgated. Directs agencies to ensure total incremental cost of all new regulations for FY 2025, including repealed regulations, is less than $0.
AHA Comments on FTC Anticompetitive Deregulations RFI
The AHA provides an overview of the key statutes and regulations that have impeded competition in the health care market and offer a series of recommendations to remedy these obstacles.
AHA Comments on DOJ Anticompetitive Deregulations RFI
The AHA provides an overview of the key statutes and regulations that have impeded competition in the health care market and offer a series of recommendations to remedy these obstacles.
AHA responds to DOJ, FTC anticompetitive regulation RFIs
AHA May 23 submitted recommendations to the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission in response to the agencies’ requests for information on unnecessary or burdensome anticompetitive regulations.
Public comment period opens for deregulation RFI from HHS
The Department of Health and Human Services May 13 announced (https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/fda-10-to-1-deregulatory-plan-to-lower-costs-empower-patients.html) a 60-day public comment period opened for stakeholders regarding its request for information (https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-08384.pdf) to remove outdated or unnecessary regulations.
AHA Urges Congress to Provide Support to Help Minimize Further Fallout from Change Healthcare Attack
We are now on day 13 of the crisis caused by the recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare and its impacts on hospitals, health systems and patients around the country. We urgently need Congress's support to help minimize further fallout from this attack.
CMS to update SPA template for medication-assisted treatment benefit
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released a