Advocacy & Public Policy
Resources from the American Hospital Association (AHA) on advocacy and public policy health care issues.
Two hundred twenty-four. That’s the number of days since the last COVID-19 relief package was signed into law.
AHA statement on CY 2021 OPPS final rule from Executive Vice President Tom Nickels.
The AHA launched a new periodic report to convey to congressional staff hospitals’ and health systems’ desperate need for a new COVID-19 relief package.
Summary of CMS’ CY 2021 Medicare physician fee schedule final rule
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Nov. 20 released two final rules that will modernize and make important changes to physician self-referral (Stark law) and federal Anti-kickback statute (AKS) regulations.
The AHA, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association urged the Trump administration to share all critical information related to COVID-19 with the Biden transition team.
Two recent reports by the Health Care Cost Institute appear to use an oversimplified analytic approach and draw overly broad conclusions about price variation and price growth variation, writes Aaron Wesolowski, AHA’s vice president for policy research, analytics and strategy.
In two recent reports, the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) appears to use oversimplified analytic approach and draws overly broad conclusions about price variation and price growth variation. Their analysis does not address many of the key factors that can contribute to price variation and growth…
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last year ruled the ACA’s individual mandate unconstitutional and sent the case back to the district court in Texas for the judge to determine which of the law's provisions could survive without the mandate. The U.S. Supreme Court today heard oral argument in the…
The Drug Enforcement Administration published an interim final rule expanding access to medication-assisted treatment under the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act of 2018.