AHA
Content about the American Hospital Association, its business units and its activities.
The AHA this week sponsored two sessions at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 2019 Annual Legislative Conference.
The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to withdraw its proposal to rescind a 2015 rule that requires states to develop and submit access monitoring review plans for certain Medicaid services.
The AHA has made a donation to the American Red Cross to help the Bahamas recover from Hurricane Dorian.
The rule would force millions of immigrants “to choose between accepting public services and accepting a green card … an impossible choice,” the brief states.
The edits were originally scheduled to take effect in July.
The AHA today urged leaders of the Senate Committee on Appropriations to allow funding for the adoption of a unique patient identifier as part of the fiscal year 2020 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill.
The AHA invites hospitals and health systems to participate in the Better Maternal Outcomes Rapid Improvement Network — a free, six-month program focused on maternal outcomes and respectful care.
Hospital mergers and creating “system-ness” is sometimes misunderstood as being motivated to gain leverage to increase prices. Such claims are clearly off base.
As American health care continues to transform, hospitals and health systems are leading the way forward, fueling innovation and delivering greater value to patients, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack wrote today in an advertorial in the Wall Street Journal.
The Federal Communications Commission’s Connected Care Pilot Program is “a welcome and critical step” toward advancing the progress of connected care, and the FCC should “adopt rules that will implement the Pilot Program as soon as possible,” the AHA said.