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Fitch Ratings highlights potential fiscal, credit impact of Medicaid proposals
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Medicaid fiscal accountability proposed rule and recent block grant guidance “could have fiscal and credit repercussions” for states and health care providers, especially nonprofit providers with “higher Medicaid exposure,” according to a recent commentary by Fitch Ratings.
Special Bulletin: Senate HELP Committee Leaders Unveil Discussion Draft Legislation on Lowering Health Care Costs
Leaders of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) May 23 released the Lower Health Care Costs Act of 2019 – bipartisan discussion draft legislation focused on reducing health care costs.
Perspective: Making Progress on Protecting Patients from Surprise Medical Bills
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack discusses the current state of surprise medical billing legislation and the challenges that remain ahead before any proposals are finalized.
Fact Sheet: Surprise Billing Legislation
The Senate and House are both considering legislation to address surprise medical bills that patients may incur as a result of unexpected gaps in insurance coverage or medical emergencies. Below are brief summaries of the proposals under consideration. A
Fact Sheet: Surprise Medical Billing Legislation Rural Impact
AHA Ask: AHA supports protecting patients from surprise medical bills. Policymakers should focus on assisting rural hospitals in their negotiations with payers and providing the incentives and resources needed to maintain local access to care and not undermine these communities with potentially harmful national policy changes.
Surprise Medical Bills: Arbitration Fiction vs. Fact
Patients should not be balance billed for emergency services, or for services obtained in any in-network facility when the patient could reasonably have assumed that the providers caring for them were in-network with their health plan.
Rural health system prioritizes workforce diversity to meet community needs
With 57 million Americans living in rural areas and dependent on the nearest hospital for most of their care needs, it is more important than ever to preserve the viability of access to care in rural America.
Fact Sheet: How Commercial Insurers Turned Ending Surprise Medical Bills into an Industry Windfall
The one issue that all stakeholders – hospitals, physicians, insurers and consumers – agree on is that
patients should not be balance billed for emergency services, or for services obtained in any in-network
facility when the patient could reasonably have assumed that the providers caring for them were in-network
with their health plan.
Special Bulletin: House Committees Release Legislation to Address Surprise Medical Bills
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., and Ranking Member Kevin Brady, R-Texas, this morning released legislative text of the Consumer Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills Act of 2020, the committee’s proposal to address surprise medical bills.
Tomorrow is deadline to complete IFDHE survey
The AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity encourages all hospitals to complete its 2019 Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Survey by the extended deadline of Feb. 14.