Press Releases
View all of the press releases for the media on health care issues impacting hospitals and health systems.
We commend the Congress for its work on the revised 21st Century Cures bill. We urge the House to approve this legislation tomorrow, as it helps improve hospitals’ ability to treat some of the most vulnerable patients.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) today unveiled a report outlining a menu of options for communities, hospitals and policymakers to ensure that vulnerable rural and urban communities have access to essential health care services.
Millions of Americans have exercised one of our most fundamental rights the right to vote and elect our leaders and the result of Tuesdays historic election will shape national policies for years to come.
CMSs final rule appropriately recognizes that providing no payment to new off-campus hospital clinics for the services they provide to patients was an untenable policy.
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.