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The House Budget Committee today voted 22-13 along party lines to pass a fiscal year 2016 budget plan, which the full House could consider next week. The proposal would reduce Medicare spending by $148 billion and Medicaid and other health care spending by $913 billion over 10 years.
More than 150 hospital leaders today gathered on Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to reject cuts to payments for hospital care that would limit patients’ access to care. During an AHA Advocacy Day briefing in Washington, D.C., which also was webcast, AHA leaders provided the latest details on…
At an AHA-sponsored briefing today on Capitol Hill, hospital leaders called for changes in Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. Michael Langberg, M.D., senior vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, said hospitals shouldn’t be “…
In an advertorial today in the Wall Street Journal, AHA President and CEO Rich Umbdenstock calls for “real reform” of the Medicare program, “not piecemeal provider cuts,” noting that Congress has cut $122 billion from hospitals alone since 2010. “Washington can…
The House today voted 232-186 to approve a joint resolution (S.J. Res. 8) to nullify a National Labor Relations Board final rule changing the process for filing and processing petitions for union representation of employees. Effective April 14, the rule will shorten the time between a union filing…
The Affordable Care Act has energized five fundamental shifts in health care over the past five years, according to a new report by the PwC Health Research Institute. They are a shift in risk away from traditional insurers and onto providers and others; a renewed emphasis on primary care; an…
A new AHA TrendWatch report calls for refinements in Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) that achieve the goal of reducing readmissions without unfairly penalizing hospitals.
Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, March 19 introduced a bill to repeal Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula for reimbursing physicians and replace it with a 0.5% payment update for five years as payments transition to a more value-based system.Details of how the legislation will be…
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) today unveiled the committee’s budget plan for fiscal year 2016, which would repeal the Affordable Care Act and adopt the president’s overall Medicare reductions of nearly $431 billion over 10 years.
The AHA and four other national hospital organizations this week expressed “profound disappointment” with a two-day workshop on health care competition convened last month by the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice.