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AHA Statement to Senate Committee on Aging Hearing on Health Care Services
AHA shares the hospital field’s comments on how to reduce health care costs for seniors.
AHA Comments on CMS CY 2026 Outpatient, ASC Proposed Payment Rule
RE: CMS–1832–P Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Calendar Year 2026 Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Changes to Part B Payment and Coverage Policies; Medicare Shared Savings Program Requirements; and Medicare Prescription Drug Inflation Rebate Program
Protect Access to Care for Patients and Communities
Congress should enact policies to strengthen the health care workforce and reject harmful proposals that would cut Medicare or Medicaid payments to hospitals and reduce access to care and services for patients.
Fact Sheet: Lower Health Care Costs Act (S.1895) Rural Impact
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee June 19 introduced the Lower Health Care Costs Act (S.1895), legislation to prevent surprise medical bills, reduce prescription drug prices, improve transparency in health care, invest in public health and improve health information exchange.
AHA Digital Pulse
This new benefit for AHA members will make it easier for you to monitor your performance over time and connect with others. Take your assessment and join the growing digital health community.
Patient Billing Guidelines Affirmation
The American Hospital Association’s voluntary Patient Billing Guidelines outline how hospitals and health systems can best serve their patients and communities, and underscore their commitment to ensuring that conversations about financial obligations do not impede care, while recognizing that determinations around financial assistance require mutual sharing of information by providers and patients.
Fact Sheet: Surprise Medical Billing Legislation Rural Impact
AHA Ask: AHA supports protecting patients from surprise medical bills. Policymakers should focus on assisting rural hospitals in their negotiations with payers and providing the incentives and resources needed to maintain local access to care and not undermine these communities with potentially harmful national policy changes.
No Surprises Act Implementation Handbook
The No Surprises Act established new patient protections against balance billing in certain circumstances, as well as put into place a number of other provisions that will change how providers and health plans engage with patients and each other with respect to price and coverage transparency, as well as billing. The following implementation guide is intended to help hospitals and health systems understand the new provisions in the law and corresponding regulations.