Responding to a request for stakeholder input, AHA shared with the House Budget Committee Health Care Task Force its recommendations to make health care more affordable without compromising access to high quality care. The recommendations include proposals to streamline health insurers’ administrative practices and federal regulatory requirements; expand access to care through digital health technologies; reform the medical liability system; reduce prescription drug costs; promote innovation, prevention and equity; prevent inappropriate care denials in Medicare Advantage; and enforce medical loss ratio requirements.

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is seeking comments by May 11 on its proposed revisions to data reporting requirements for Medicare Advantage…
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The Coalition to Strengthen America’s Healthcare March 18 launched a new ad highlighting harmful practices by large corporate health insurers that drive up…
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A hospital patient from the 1990s would likely marvel at the pace of progress in health care just a generation later. America’s hospitals and health systems…
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The Joint Economic Committee March 10 released a report that found Medicare Part B premiums rose last year due to Medicare Advantage overpayments. The…
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A JAMA study published Feb. 18 found that 10% of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries — approximately 2.9 million — have needed to find other health coverage for…
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The Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing Feb. 11 on issues impacting physician burnout. The AHA provided a statement for the hearing and urged…