Advocacy & Public Policy
Resources from the American Hospital Association (AHA) on advocacy and public policy health care issues.
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The dust has begun to settle on the 2018 mid-term elections and a clearer picture is emerging of what the results may mean for health care in the 116th Congress. We’ve created a number of member-exclusive resources to get you’re the…
AHA expresses support for the Maternal Health Accountability Act (S. 1112), as amended and passed by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in July, and the discussion draft version of the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act of 2018 (H.R. 1318).
Town Hall webcasts
AHA shared with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and the Federal Trade Commission additional perspective on a recent Wall Street Journal article suggesting hospitals were at the root of contract terms that could disadvantage consumers.
On behalf of our approximately 5,000 hospitals and health system members, the American Hospital Association (AHA) requests immediate clarification of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) expectations regarding the actions hospitals must take to appropriately guard against…
The AHA today expressed its opposition to an amendment included in the Department of Homeland Security’s appropriations bill in the House Appropriations Committee that would eliminate the per-country cap for immigrant visas.
The AHA and other hospital groups today opposed the Department of Health and Human Services motion to stay in the groups’ lawsuit challenging the excessive delay in the effective date for the 340B price transparency rule.
Tom Nickels
Bipartisan leaders from committees of jurisdiction in the House and Senate yesterday reached agreement on the final provisions of the Opioid Crisis Response Act.
“America’s hospitals and health systems are on the front lines of the opioid crisis that is ravaging communities across the nation and costing nearly 150 American lives each day. We are encouraged that the Senate today passed legislation containing several provisions that will help hospitals…