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The House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health will host a legislative hearing, “Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: Examining Policies to Increase Health Care Transparency,” on Wednesday, June 10, at 10:15 a.m. ET.

Please contact your representative about a draft bill that could be considered next week.

The House Committee on Ways and Means released draft bill text in advance of its planned May 20 markup.

The House Committee on Ways and Means, on April 28 at 10 a.m. ET, will host a hearing during which hospital and health system leaders are expected to testify on health care affordability.

This is the next in a series of hearings examining health care costs and exploring options to make care more affordable.

Please contact your representative prior to the Jan. 22 House hearings to share with them how some commercial insurer policies and practices delay, deny and disrupt care for patients.

Reps. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., and Tracey Mann, R-Kan., are circulating a “Dear Colleague” letter asking House members to sign a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services expressing concerns about the recently announced 340B Rebate Model…

It is important to engage with your lawmakers while they are home and discuss the impact that the recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act and additional policy proposals that are under consideration will have on hospitals’ ability to provide care.

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.