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The Senate July 1, and the House July 2, passed a budget reconciliation bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), H.R. 1, a sweeping package that enacts many of President Trump’s legislative priorities on taxes, border security, energy and deficit reduction. The bill includes significant policy…
President Trump July 4 signed into law the OBBBA; Public Law No. 119-21, a sweeping package that enacts many of the administration’s legislative priorities on taxes, border security and energy. The bill includes significant policy changes to Medicaid and the Health Insurance Marketplaces.
The AHA has developed this resource to visualize the enactment timeline for provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) impacting hospitals and health systems.
BackgroundCorewell Health, a 21-hospital nonprofit health system headquartered in Michigan, is strongly committed to communicating the availability of financial assistance to patients and the public, and to ensuring that consistent guidelines are applied to requests for financial assistance across…
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., has withdrawn his amendment to the Senate’s budget reconciliation bill. This withdrawal comes after a vigorous advocacy campaign by the AHA, with the great assistance of our members, to urge senators to vote no on the amendment.
The magnitude of nearly a trillion-dollar reduction to the Medicaid program cannot be characterized solely as waste, fraud and abuse. The real-life consequences of these reductions will result in irreparable harm to access to care for all Americans and undermine the ability of hospitals and health…
Senator Rick Scott, R-Fla., is expected to introduce an amendment to the Senate budget reconciliation bill during the vote-a-rama in the coming hours. The amendment would dramatically impact expansion states.
The table below summarizes the 10-year impact on federal Medicaid hospital spending if the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) were reduced to the traditional level for Medicaid expansion enrollees due to program churn.
Please join AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack, Executive Vice President of Government Relations and Public Policy Stacey Hughes, and other AHA leaders for a member-only call June 24 at 5 p.m. ET.
The Senate Committee on Finance has released bill text for its portion of the budget reconciliation bill. It appears that the provisions further undermine the ability for hospitals to provide care to Medicaid patients.