AHA today released its advocacy agenda for the coming year, which details the association’s key priorities for Congress, the Administration, regulatory agencies and courts to help hospitals and health systems address unprecedented financial challenges and workforce shortages while reducing administrative burden and advancing health care access, quality, equity and innovation.  
  
AHA will work closely with members; state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations; national health care organizations; and other stakeholders to implement the advocacy strategy. Access the agenda and AHA’s latest advocacy campaigns here

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Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, yesterday introduced a House version of the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program Reauthorization Act, a bill that would…
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Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, introduced the Rural Maternity Options for Medical Support Act on May 19. The bill would guarantee that beds used solely for labor…
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The House Education and Workforce Committee May 21 unanimously passed the Transparency in Billing Act (H.R. 8684). The bill would require off-campus hospital…
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The AHA May 7 wrote to House and Senate lawmakers in support of the Medicare Advantage Improvement Act (H.R. 8375/S. 4384), bipartisan and bicameral…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has opened registration for its seventh annual CMS & Health Level Seven International Fast Healthcare…
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President Trump April 30 announced that Nicole Saphier, M.D., has been nominated to be the next U.S. surgeon general. Saphier is a radiologist and…