Medicaid
AHA and five other national hospital organizations today filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's expansion of the Medicaid program and reject the argument of FL and other states that it is unlawfully "coercive." If "…
The Coalition to Protect America's Health Care today launched a national advertising campaign to urge Congress not to cut Medicare and Medicaid funding for hospital care.
The Coalition to Protect America's Health Care tomorrow will launch on December 14, 2011, a national print campaign to urge Congress not to cut billions of dollars from hospital care to pay for a physician payment fix.
This Regulatory Advisory highlights CMS's proposed rule to revise the existing Medicare and Medicaid Conditions of Participation (CoPs) for hospitals and critical access hospitals.
The AHA commends Don Berwick's commitment and passion to improving health care. We appreciate his openness to always being willing to listen to the hospital field's perspective on how to deliver better care to patients.
On September 14, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a final regulation for the new Medicaid Recovery Audit Contractor program. The final rule was published in the September 16 Federal Register.
Given that Medicare and Medicaid comprise more than 20 percent of all federal spending, some policymakers are advocating cuts to Medicare and Medicaid payments for hospital services as part of deficit reduction options.
AHA Amicus Brief Filed With the Supreme Court to Enforce Medicaid Law
On June 6, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) issued a final ruleoutlining its planned implementation of non-payment for Medicaid healthcare-associated conditions.
A summary of the report, Limiting Federal Spending as a Proportion of Total Gross Domestic Product \(GDP\), prepared by The Lewin Group