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Post-Acute Care Advocacy Alliance Member Spotlight
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Post-Acute Care Advocacy Alliance Update April 11, 2024

Post-Acute Care Advocacy Alliance newsletter for April 11, 2024.
Standards/Guidelines

Patient Billing Guidelines

AHA's patient billing guidelines ensure that hospitals treat all patients equitably and with compassion. Learn how hospitals can assist patients with financial assistance and coverage.
News

Chair file: Honoring Our Hospital Teams This Week and Every Week

It’s National Hospital Week — an annual event of seven days to recognize the 5,000 hospitals, health systems and networks, as well as the more than 6 million people, who provide care to individuals and communities.
Trustee Articles

Taking Responsibility for Transitions at the Top

Succession planning is a high-stakes governance responsibility. The significant costs of protracted CEO searches and failed replacements are well-documented. Yet, data from the for-profit and nonprofit sectors continue to show that many boards aren’t focusing enough attention on succession planning or on getting it right.
News

AHA comments on draft legislation to extend hospital-at-home program

Commenting last week on a discussion draft of the Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act, which would extend the hospital-at-home program through 2027, AHA thanked the sponsors for their ongoing work to extend this innovative program and voiced support for its continuance.
General Information Page

May is Mental Health Awareness Month

Join us in celebrating Mental Health Awareness Month 2024 and learn how hospitals and health systems are addressing behavioral health care.
News

Supporting Hospitals and Patients After Cyberattack on Change Healthcare

The cyberattack against Change Healthcare that began on Feb. 21 is the most serious incident of its kind leveled against a U.S. health care organization.
News

Tapping Community Partners to Codesign Black Maternal Care 

By codesigning care with community partners, hospitals can proactively and collaboratively work toward improving Black maternal health outcomes.
Letter/Comment
Public

AHA, FAH Request Comment Period Extension for Proposed Mandatory Bundled Payment Model

The AHA and FAH comments on the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) proposals in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule for fiscal year (FY) 2025.
News

MACPAC publishes March report to Congress, maternity care catalogue

The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission published a pair of reports. In its March report to Congress, MACPAC, a key congressional advisor on the Medicaid program, updated its annual analyses of disproportionate share hospitals, including national estimates of the number of these facilities, spending by state, and uncompensated care costs by hospital type.