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Hospital leaders today briefed congressional staff on the important role that Medicare’s support for graduate medical education (GME) plays in helping teaching hospitals train the next generation of health care providers and urged Congress to provide adequate funding to support these efforts.
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law today held a hearing on the Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules (SMARTER) Act, AHA-supported legislation that would standardize the merger review process for the Department of Justice (DOJ)…
The AHA supports a number of provisions in the inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule for fiscal year 2016, but is concerned about the rule’s cuts to disproportionate share hospital payments, lack of data transparency and certain proposed changes to the Inpatient Quality…
The AHA today expressed serious concern with certain aspects of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposal for implementing a site-neutral payment component to the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System for cost reporting periods beginning on or after Oct. 1, 2015.
One in five Medicaid beneficiaries had a behavioral health condition in 2011, and these individuals accounted for almost half of total Medicaid expenditures, according to a report released to Congress today by the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission.
The Departments of Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services late Friday issued a final rule updating disclosure requirements for the Summary of Benefits and Coverage issued by group and individual health plans under the Affordable Care Act. Effective 60 days after publication in tomorrow…
The Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response today launched an online resource for health care providers and others working in disaster medicine and health care system and public health emergency preparedness. The Technical…
Overall hospital prices increased 0.1% in May and were 0.7% higher than a year ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Prices for the subgroup of general medical and surgical hospitals increased 0.1%, and were 0.5% higher than in May 2014, according to the BLS Producer Price Indices,…
The U.S. House of Representatives today voted 302-126 to reject a Trade Adjustment Assistance bill that would have provided federal job-training and other assistance to workers, firms, farmers and communities that have been hurt by foreign trade. The bill, as passed by the Senate, also would have…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday announced that it has settled appeals of outstanding Medicare inpatient status claims with more than 1,900 hospitals, representing approximately 300,000 claims, which modestly reduces the significant backlog of Medicare appeals in the…