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Hospital OPPS/ASC Final Rule for CY 2021, Including Maintenance of 340B Cuts
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Dec. 2 issued its calendar year (CY) 2021 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS)/ambulatory surgical center (ASC) final rule. In addition to standard updates, the rule maintains previous payment cuts for certain drugs purchased under the 340B drug savings program, expands the list of outpatient services subject to prior authorization, eliminates the inpatient-only list over three years, makes significant changes to the hospital star ratings methodology, changes the physician-owned hospital policy and requires new hospital COVID-19 data reporting.
CMS Releases CY 2021 Final Rule for Physician Fee Schedule Payments
Summary of CMS’ CY 2021 Medicare physician fee schedule final rule
AHA Senate Letter in Support of the Bipartisan Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act
The AHA expresses support for the bipartisan Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (S. 4349), legislation that aims to reduce and prevent burnout, behavioral disorders and suicide among health care professionals.
The Value Initiative Issue Brief: Team-based Care Creates Value
To better support patients and their families through an acute or chronic illness, hospitals are adopting team-based models of care that encompass patients’ medical and social needs across the care continuum.
FCC approves new telehealth pilot program, issues proposed rulemaking
The Federal Communications Commission today voted unanimously to approve a notice of proposed rulemaking to establish a new $100 million “Connected Care Pilot Program” to support telehealth for low-income Americans, including veterans and those living in rural areas.
Strategies to Prevent Health Professional Burnout
David Zaas, M.D., chief clinical officer for MUSC Health in South Carolina and CEO of its Charleston Division, talks with Nancy Foster, AHA vice president for quality and patient safety, about strategies and tools to address burnout as health care professionals continue to care for COVID-19 patients.
AHA Rebuttal to ‘Overcoming the Market Dominance of Hospitals’
A recent JAMA article, recycles old and tired arguments about hospital consolidation without any examination of the impact of consolidation in the commercial health insurance industry or related health care sectors that promise to have a profound impact on the cost, quality and accessibility of health care for consumers.
Additional Actions Needed in the Next COVID-19 Relief Package to Support Hospitals and Health Systems
During the COVID-19 crisis, hospitals and health systems – and their dedicated caregivers and front-line teams – continue to work around-the-clock to provide the care that our communities and patients need. While the AHA greatly appreciates the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act and the valuable resources they provided, additional support is urgently needed. In order to make certain that hospitals are able to continue to provide treatments, front-line health care personnel are able to provide care and patients are able access health care services, Congress must act quickly to get additional needed resources into the health care system.
Fact Sheet: Preserving and Building on Private Sector Health Care Coverage
Health care coverage is critical to ensuring patients’ access to care, which supports their own individual health, as well helps prevent the further spread of COVID-19. The economic stress of the public health emergency already has cost millions of jobs and is therefore expected to increase the number of individuals and families without coverage.
Fact Sheet: Support Health Care Heroes
The front-line caregivers in the COVID-19 crisis, including nurses, physicians, facilities management personnel, technicians and other health care providers, are working around the clock to care for patients and our communities.