Advisory
AHA Advisories provide urgent information for AHA members and the health care field, and actions they may need to take.
On Tuesday, July 14, House leaders introduced the America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 \(H.R. 3200\). The ")tri-committee") health care reform bill is the product of the chairmen of three key House committees: Ways & Means, Energy & Commerce and Education & Labor.
On June 19, House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel \(D-NY\), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman \(D-CA\) and Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller \(D-CA\) released their draft health care reform legislation.
On May 22, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published in the Federal Register its hospital inpatient and long-term care hospital \(LTCH\) prospective payment system \(PPS\) proposed rule for federal fiscal year \(FY\) 2010.
Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 created new reporting requirements that will apply to many hospitals under the Medicare Secondary Payer \(MSP\) law. Hospitals that self-insure \(as defined by MSP\) their liability or self-fund a workers' compensation plan or a…
As your national representative, the AHA is working to ensure that the needs of hospitals and the communities they serve are reflected in any health care reform legislation that is passed this year.
On May 12, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published Federal Register the Medicare skilled nursing facility \(SNF\) prospective payment system \(PPS\) proposed rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2010.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on May 6 published in the Federal Register the inpatient rehabilitation facility \(IRF\) prospective payment system \(PPS\) proposed rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2010.
Signed into law on May 20, the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 \(FERA\) is primarily directed at protection against mortgage fraud. However, the FERA also contains several significant expansions of the federal civil False Claims Act \(FCA\), which has not been altered in more than 20…