Advocacy & Public Policy
Resources from the American Hospital Association (AHA) on advocacy and public policy health care issues.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Nov. 9 announced allocations for the second year of the Rural Health Transformation Program, which will award $10 billion annually to all states from fiscal year 2026 through FY 2030.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Nov. 4 released its calendar year 2027 final rule for the physician fee schedule. As required by law, CMS will implement two separate conversion factors: one for qualifying alternative payment model participants, or QPs, and one for physicians and…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Nov. 4 issued a final rule that increases Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system rates by a net 2.3% in calendar year 2027 compared to 2026.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts yesterday ruled in favor of 25 states and the District of Columbia to vacate the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ definition of “medically frail” from its Medicaid community engagement requirements.
The AHA Oct. 27 submitted comments on the Supporting Underserved and Strengthening Transparency, Accountability, and Integrity Now and for the Future of 340B Act (SUSTAIN 340B Act).
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The AHA Oct. 20 expressed support for the Addressing Boarding and Crowding in the Emergency Department (ABC-ED) Act (S. 1974), bipartisan legislation designed to improve data collection on hospital capacity and ED boarding.
AHA leaders this week are participating in the International Hospital Federation’s 2026 World Hospital Congress in Seoul, South Korea.
The AHA provided recommendations to the Food and Drug Administration Oct. 19 on potential regulatory frameworks for generative artificial intelligence-enabled medical devices.
An executive order issued by the White House today directs the Department of Health and Human Services, through the National Institutes of Health, to establish a Women’s Health Division. The new division will focus on conditions that uniquely or disproportionately affect women.