Action Alert
American Hospital Association (AHA) Action Alerts notify members about advocacy opportunities on health care issues and legislation.
Enactment of the Safety from Violence for Healthcare Employees (SAVE) Act (H.R. 2584/S. 2768) is a top priority for the AHA and the hospital field.
Now is the best time to begin scheduling a site visit to your hospital or health system with your lawmakers to show them firsthand the impact your team makes on the community.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) April 10 proposed a new mandatory payment model — Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) — that would bundle payment to acute care hospitals for five types of surgical episodes.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (O&I) June 4 will host a hearing titled, “Oversight of 340B Drug Pricing Program.” Please contact your Energy and Commerce member before the June 4 hearing and share with them the importance of the 340B program…
As hospitals and health systems continue to feel the effects of the unprecedented cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Change Healthcare, the AHA has been in conversations with Congress and the Administration urging them to act and provide support to ensure providers can continue caring for…
As the entire health care system continues to be affected by the ongoing cyberattack on Change Healthcare, we need Congress to act and support hospitals and other providers to help minimize further fallout from this attack.
Enactment of the Safety from Violence for Healthcare Employees (SAVE) Act (H.R. 2584/S. 2768) is a top priority for the AHA and the hospital field.
Congress recently passed a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown, which extended the deadlines to fund the government for the remainder of fiscal year 2024. Congress now must fund four appropriations bills by March 1 and eight appropriations bills by March 8 — or pass another stop-gap bill to…
Ask your lawmakers not to include any site-neutral payment cuts as part of a legislative package that would fund the government; first funding deadline is Jan. 19
The House of Representatives as soon as next week could consider the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act (H.R. 5378), a bill that includes site-neutral payment cuts and detrimental provisions focused on hospital price transparency, among other issues.