In its 2019 Rural Advocacy Agenda, the American Hospital Association (AHA) called for more opportunities for rural hospitals to successfully participate in bundled payment models, the Quality Payment...
The American Hospital Association (AHA), Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and three healthcare organizations are suing HHS over a new site-neutral payment policy slated to take effect...
The American Hospital Association (AHA), along with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and their member hospitals, plan to bring a lawsuit against CMS for recently released...
CMS should withdraw new proposals to expand site-neutral payments to hospital outpatient clinic visits and services from expanded clinical families delivered at off-campus provider-based departments...
In response to the recent CMS call for stakeholder feedback on how to provide regulatory relief, industry groups detailed ways to reduce red tape associated with value-based purchasing...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) pressed CMS Administrator Seema Verma to reconsider proposed Medicare reimbursement provisions for long-term care hospitals (LTCHs). Specifically, the industry...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently called on CMS to audit and modify the hospital cost report, Worksheet S-10, before the federal agency uses the report to determine each hospital’s...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) recently urged lawmakers to oppose a proposed bill that would extend physician self-referral allowances to...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently urged the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) to finalize a recommendation that would boost Medicare reimbursement for hospital inpatient and...
Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement in 2015 was under actual hospital costs for treating beneficiaries by $57.8 billion, the American Hospital Association (AHA) recently reported.
According to data from...
In a recent letter to President-Elect Trump, the American Hospital Association (AHA) urged the upcoming administration to continue the value-based reimbursement transition by developing more effective...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently called on Congress to pass several healthcare payment reform bills, such as the Helping Hospitals Improve Patient Care Act and the Sustaining Healthcare...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently advised the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement three solutions that would significantly reduce the Medicare appeals backlog at the...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently penned a letter to CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt urging the federal agency to withdraw its proposed rule to include third-party payments, such as...
In a statement to the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, the American Hospital Association (AHA) argued that Medicare value-based reimbursement programs, particularly pay-for-performance...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has asked CMS to delay the implementation of proposed site-neutral payments for another year because the payment reform rule could increase a hospital’s...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently urged the US Court of Appeals to reject the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) new approach to assessing whether or not hospital mergers will create a...
For alternative payment models under MACRA to succeed, the federal government needs to revise healthcare fraud and abuse prevention laws to work with new value-based care strategies, explained the...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has called on the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to revise proposed Medicare reimbursement reforms for two post-acute care models. In separate...
By stripping commercial accountable care organizations (ACOs) of their charitable tax exempt status, the IRS could be threatening the future of value-based care and care coordination, according to the...
