Advisory
AHA Advisories provide urgent information for AHA members and the health care field, and actions they may need to take.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus \(D-MT\) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley \(R-IA\) on May 18 released a set of policy options for financing comprehensive health care reform. The paper seeks to lay out for Senate Finance Committee \(SFC\) members a series of options to reduce Medicare…
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus \(D-MT\) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley \(R-IA\) on May 11 released a set of policy options for expanding affordable health care coverage. The paper seeks to lay out for Finance Committee members a series of options, without recommendation, on the…
On May 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) issued its hospitalinpatient and long-term care prospective payment system \(PPS\) proposed rule for federal fiscal year \(FY\) 2010.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus \(D-MT\) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley \(R-IA\) on April 28 released a set of policy options for transforming the health care delivery system to improve patient care and reduce health care costs.
Since President Obama on February 17 signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act \(ARRA\), which provides approximately 9 billion in funding to help hospitals and physicians adopt health information technology \(HIT\), we have received numerous inquiries from AHA members about how…
This advisory aims to provide an overview of the permanent RAC program. It describes the guidelines RACs must follow, the requirements for hospitals and the timeline for the national rollout of the program.
This advisory provides an overview of Fair Credit Reporting Act \(FCRA\) and its applications. Hospitals commitment to caring includes helping a patient determine his or her options for financial assistance and improving the billing process. One of the tools some hospitals have considered using to…
The AHA anticipates a significant increase in audit activity by contractors for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in 2009 and beyond as a result of the transition of the hospital review function from Quality Improvement Organizations to contracted fiscal intermediaries and Medicare…