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Fact Sheet: Legislative Proposals Under Consideration Would Jeopardize Access to Care for Patients and Communities
Congress is considering several proposals that would impose additional Medicare site-neutral payment reductions for services provided in hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs).
Fact Sheet: Medicare Hospital Outpatient Site-Neutral Payment Policies
The AHA strongly opposes site-neutral payment cuts, which would reduce access to critical health care services, especially in rural and other underserved communities.
Fact Sheet: Hospitals & Health Systems and Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been widely used in the health care field for decades. Hospitals and health systems, for example, have developed or used AI tools to help increase the quality and efficiency
of care, including supporting clinicians in determining diagnoses, prognoses and specific treatment recommendations for patients.
Fact Sheet: Workplace Violence and Intimidation, and the Need for a Federal Legislative Response
For the past several years, the health care field has experienced a sharp increase in workplace
violence. The COVID-19 pandemic placed significant stress on the entire health care system, and
in some situations, patients, visitors and family members have attacked health care staff and
jeopardized our workforce’s ability to provide care.
Hospital Outpatient Department (HOPD) Costs Higher than Physician Offices Due to Additional Capabilities, Regulations
Find the best hopd healthcare services near you with our comprehensive directory of top-rated hospitals and physician offices.
Medicare Site-neutral Legislative Proposals Under Consideration Would Jeopardize Access to Care for Patients and Communities
Congress is considering several bills that would impose additional site-neutral payment reductions for services provided in hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs). A description of these bills, AHA’s take on the proposals and the potential impact these proposals would have on Medicare reimbursement to hospitals and health systems follow.
Fact Sheet: Physician Self-referral to Physician-owned Hospitals
Some members of Congress continue to propose weakening Medicare’s prohibition on physician self-referral to new physician-owned hospitals and loosening restrictions on the growth of grandfathered hospitals. The Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2023 (H.R. 977/S.470), would allow problematic physician-owned hospitals to open and permit unfettered growth in existing physician-owned hospitals.
Fact Sheet: COVID-19 Waivers Should Be Extended, Made Permanent or Enacted to Improve Patient Care
At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government moved quickly to ensure hospitals and health systems were able to respond efficiently and effectively to a wave of unprecedented need.
Fact Sheet: Extending the Acute Hospital Care at Home Program Beyond the End of the COVID-19 PHE
The AHA urges Congress and the Biden Administration to extend the H@H program as currently authorized under the waiver to allow providers to continue to take steps to transform care delivery in a way that improves patient experience and outcomes while ensuring high patient safety. The Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act (S. 3792, H.R. 7053), bipartisan legislation introduced by Senators Carper (D-DE) and Scott (R-SC) and Congressmen Blumenauer (D-OR) and Wenstrup (R-OH), would provide a two-year extension of the current H@H waiver.
Fact Sheet: Health Care Workplace Violence and Intimidation, and the Need for a Federal Legislative Response
Congress should enact the Safety from Violence for Healthcare Employees (SAVE) Act, which provides health care workplace protections against violence similar to those that exist for flight crews, flight attendants and airport workers.