Letter/Comment
The latest advocacy letters and comments from the American Hospital Association.
MedPAC indicated that it will not consider the impact of sequestration in its update process until next year, for its FY 2016 recommendations. The AHA is extremely troubled by this framework, which represents an inaccurate and misleading picture of Medicare payments and provider margins.
AHA's comment on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ hospital inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule for fiscal year (FY) 2014.
AHA's comments on the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) proposed rule that would extend the regulatory protections under the federal antikickback law for hospitals that want to provide assistance to physicians in adopting certain health information…
AHA's comments on the CMS proposed rule that would extend the regulatory protections under the federal physician self-referral or Stark law for hospitals that want to provide assistance to physicians in adopting certain health information technology (IT).
AHA Comments on FTC and DOJ Proposed Statement of Antitrust Enforcement Policy Re: Accountable Care Organizations.
Comments to NIST on draft test procedure for evaluating EHR conformance to quality measure reporting
To ensure accurate quality measurement, we believe the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) should revise the draft test procedure to meet the following criteria.
This letter is in regards to Good Shepherd Health Care System’s recent experience with a qui tam fraud investigation under the False Claims Act.