Press Releases
View all of the American Hospital Association (AHA) press releases for the media on health care issues impacting hospitals and health systems.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) took an important step to strengthen its oversight of certified health IT products.
Today's final Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) rule presents challenges and opportunities for hospitals and health systems, and the nearly 540,000 directly employed or contracted physicians with whom they partner to deliver quality care.
New analysis finds inpatient hospital drug costs increased more than 38% per admission between 2013 and 2015.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) today awarded the Carolyn Boone Lewis Living the Vision Award to Saint Elizabeths Medical Center, Wabasha, Minn., for its work in improving the health of its communities through actions that go beyond traditional hospital care.
Hospitals continue to make great progress in their journey to improve patient care, according to new results released today by the American Hospital Association (AHA)/Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET).
The rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) could put hospitals and the physicians treating patients in outpatient departments at risk for violating fraud and abuse laws.
Mike Bromberg was both a highly respected association leader, and a professional lobbyist in the very best sense of the word, who left his fingerprints on many initiatives that improved health care in America.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has elected eight members to its Board of Trustees for three-year terms beginning Jan. 1, 2017.
We are pleased CMS reversed the effects of the 0.2 percent payment reduction that was part of the original “two-midnight” policy, and restored the resources that hospitals are lawfully due. However, we are disappointed that CMS finalized an unjustified cut to reimbursement rates for hospital…
Judith Rich, president and CEO of Tucson Medical Center (TMC) Healthcare in Tucson, Ariz., has been named to the Board of Trustees of the American Hospital Association (AHA).