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House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) yesterday introduced a continuing resolution (H.R. 2028) that would fund federal programs until April 28 and provide $872 million in funding for the 21st Century Cures Act, among other provisions. The House is expected to vote on the…
The AHA and Federation of American Hospitals today urged President-elect Trump and congressional leaders to preserve health coverage gains as part of any effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act. However, in the event such protection does not occur, they urged them to restore reductions to payments…
A federal judge yesterday ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to eliminate the backlog of Medicare claims appeals pending at the administrative law judge level within four years, granting summary judgment to AHA and three member hospitals in their case challenging HHS for failing to…
Hospital and health system leaders today took to Capitol Hill to urge Congress to pass the revised 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 34), which contains several key year-end hospital priorities, and to protect coverage as they begin deliberations about the fate of the Affordable Care Act.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today posted its updated version of the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice, a standard notice that all hospitals and critical access hospitals must provide effective March 6, 2017 to all Medicare beneficiaries who receive outpatient…
Senate Finance Committee leaders today issued a staff report on “concurrent and overlapping surgeries,” which the report describes as a practice involving a surgeon scheduling and conducting operations on two different patients during the same period of time. The report summarizes findings from a…
The AHA yesterday asked the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to consider certain issues before making draft recommendations related to provider consolidation and stand-alone emergency departments. MedPAC last month discussed, in the context of vertical integration, whether it should advance new…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General today issued a final rule amending the safe harbors to the anti-kickback statute and civil monetary penalty rules, as authorized by the Affordable Care Act and other laws. As urged by the AHA, the new safe harbor…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday released a final report on a Winnable Battles project, launched in 2010 to achieve certain public health targets.
The Root Cause Coalition, formed last year to address hunger and other social determinants of preventable chronic health conditions, today held its First National Summit on the Social Determinants of Health.