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Health Plan Accountability Update: October 2025
The AHA May 29 submitted a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services responding to a request for information regarding Medicare Advantage data, urging CMS to increase oversight of the program.
Fact Sheet: Rural Hospital Support Act (S. 335) and the Assistance for Rural Community Hospitals Act (H.R.1805)
Medicare pays most acute care hospitals under the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS). Some of these hospitals receive additional support from Medicare to help address potential financial challenges associated with being rural, geographically isolated and low volume. These programs are Low-volume Adjustment (LVA)Medicare-dependent Hospitals (MDHs), and Sole Community Hospitals (SCHs).
AHA Comments on MedPAC Payment Update Recommendations
AHA respectfully requests that you consider the following issues before making your final payment update recommendations at the January Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) meeting.
AHA Letter to CMS on the Rural Health Transformation Program
AHA urges the CMS to ensure that the Rural Health Transformation Program funding prioritizes payments to hospitals through an efficient and streamlined state application and award process.
Hundreds attend AtlantiCare Community Health Fair to celebrate, care and connect
New Jerseyites turned out by the hundreds to attend AlantiCare’s Federally Qualified Health Center’s annual community health fair at Atlantic Cape Community College in Atlantic City August 11.
House Releases Continuing Resolution to Fund Government, Extends Key Health Care Provisions
Today, the House Committee on Appropriations released the legislative text for a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government through Nov. 21, 2025.
Chair File: The OBBBA and What’s Next for Health Care
The recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act will bring big changes to health care.
Report: Hospitals and health systems squeezed by persistent economic challenges
The AHA April 30 released a report highlighting how hospitals and health systems continue to experience significant financial headwinds that can challenge their ability to provide care to their patients and communities.
AHA: House bill would repeal 15-year ban on new physician-owned hospitals, ‘destabilize’ health care access
The AHA July 8 wrote in opposition to the “Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act” (H.R. 4002), which would repeal current law banning the creation and limiting the expansion of physician-owned hospitals.
AHA Letter Supporting the Ensuring Access to Essential Providers Act of 2025
On behalf of our nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations, our clinician partners — including more than 270,000 affiliated physicians, 2 million nurses and other caregivers — and the 43,000 health care leaders who belong to our professional membership groups, the American Hospital Association (AHA) is pleased to support your legislation, the Ensuring Access to Essential Providers Act of 2025.