AHA comment on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) fiscal year (FY) 2024 SNF prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule.
Letters
Throughout the year, the AHA comments on a vast number of proposed and interim final rules put forth by the federal regulatory agencies. In addition, AHA communicates with federal legislators to convey the hospital field's position on potential legislative changes that would impact patients and patient care. Below are the most recent letters from the AHA to these bodies.
Latest
AHA comments on the fiscal year (FY) 2024 IRF prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule.
AHA, 340B hospitals and stakeholders voice concerns with two pieces of legislation that were recently passed out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee.
AMERICA’S HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS
May 23, 2023
AHA expresses serious concerns about the Federal Trade Commission’s unprecedented attempt to enforce the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) against a Louisiana hospital’s acquisition of three hospitals in the New Orleans area.
May 9, 2023
AHA letter to Senate leadership regarding funding for health care programs for fiscal year 2024.
AHA letter to Representatives Robert Aderholt and Rosa DeLauro regarding funding for health care programs for fiscal year 2024.
May 4, 2023
AHA today voiced support for bipartisan legislation in the House that would authorize through fiscal year 2025 a federal program that provides grants to public graduate medical education programs for physicians, with a focus on states with the most severe primary care provider shortages.
May 4, 2023
AHA today voiced support for bipartisan legislation in the Senate that would authorize through fiscal year 2025 a federal program that provides grants to public graduate medical education programs for physicians, with a focus on states with the most severe primary care provider shortages.
May 4, 2023
AHA today voices support for the Bipartisan Solution to Cyclical Violence Act, legislation that would create a federal grant program for hospitals to initiate or expand violence prevention programs linked to trauma centers and examine their effect on re-incarceration and readmission rates.
The AHA is pleased to support the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2023 (S. 1302).
AHA comments on the CMS' proposed rule regarding the treatment of Medicaid 1115 demonstration days.
AHA's comments on the CMS Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) Third-Party Payer proposed rule.
The AHA voices support legislation, the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2023 (H.R. 2389).
Apr 6, 2023
The Save Rural Hospitals Act would establish a national minimum rate of 0.85 for the AWI reimbursement rate, resulting in an infusion of new federal dollars to rural hospitals at this critical time.
AHA comments on three topics that were discussed during the March 2023 Medicare Payment Advisory Commission public meeting: the hospital wage index, alignment of payment rates across ambulatory settings and Medicare Part B drug payments.