Special Bulletin
The American Hospital Association (AHA) sends members Special Bulletins on the latest health care news, legislation, and advocacy opportunities for hospitals and health systems.
A federal appeals court Dec. 18 ruled the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is unconstitutional, but it did not invalidate the entire law.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sent the case back to the district court in Texas for the judge to “conduct a more searching inquiry” into which of…
Congressional leaders Dec. 16 unveiled a $1.4 trillion spending package for fiscal year (FY) 2020. The bill includes a number of key priorities for hospitals and health systems, including delaying the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) cuts through May 22, 2020, and extensions for a…
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) along with Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-Ore.) Dec. 8 announced they have reached an agreement on…
Today, the American Hospital Association and three other national organizations representing hospitals and health systems sued the federal government, challenging last month’s final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) mandating that hospitals disclose their privately…
The Administration today released a final rule requiring hospitals to disclose payer-specific negotiated rates, along with a proposed rule that would impose new requirements on private insurers in the individual and group markets to publicly disclose negotiated rates and out-of-network allowed…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Nov. 12 released a comprehensive proposed rule addressing Medicaid fiscal accountability.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Nov. 1 released the calendar year 2020 outpatient prospective payment system/ambulatory surgical center payment system final rule.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) Nov. 1 issued a final rule that updates physician fee schedule payments for calendar year 2020.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Oct. 31 issued a final rule with comment period that updates the home health (HH) prospective payment system (PPS) for calendar year (CY) 2020. In accordance with the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (BBA of 2018), last year’s rulemaking finalized a…
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) yesterday released two proposed rules that would modernize and make major changes to the physician self-referral (Stark) and federal anti-kickback statute (AKS) regulations.