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USA Today insert highlights hospital initiatives to advance value

An AHA-sponsored piece appearing online and in print today in USA Today looks at hospital initiatives to advance health care affordability and value and optimize the patient experience.
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AHA Comments to HELP Committee on Revised Version of Bill (S. 1895) Released June 19

AHA comments to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) on the revised version of bill (S. 1895) that was released June 19.
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AHA Comments to CMS on the Long-term Care Hospital PPS FY 2020 Proposed Rule

AHA comments on the LTCH provisions in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ fiscal year 2020 proposed rule for the inpatient and LTCH prospective payment systems.
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Urge Your HELP Committee Member to Protect Patients from Surprise Bills, Reject Rate Setting

Leaders of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee June 19, released a revised version of the Lower Health Care Costs Act of 2019 – bipartisan legislation focused on reducing health care costs.
Action Alert
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Urge Your HELP Committee Member to Protect Patients from Surprise Bills, Reject Rate Setting

Leaders of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee June 19 released a revised version of the Lower Health Care Costs Act of 2019 – bipartisan legislation focused on reducing health care costs.
Letter/Comment
Public

AHA Letter in Support a Provision of the Economic Mobility Act of 2019

AHA letter to Representative Richard Neal expressing strong support of a provision of legislation, H.R. 3300.
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Health Care Disruption

Health Care Disruption - In this presentation, the AHA looks at the trends that make health care ripe for disruption, who is disrupting and why.
News

House panel holds hearing on expiring Medicaid funds for territories

The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health today held a hearing on expiring supplemental Medicaid funding for American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Tax bill with AHA-supported change clears committee

The House Ways and Means Committee today passed the Economic Mobility Act (H.R. 3300), tax legislation that includes an AHA-supported provision to repeal a costly tax code change in how non-profit employers such as hospitals must account for transportation and parking fringe benefits for employees.
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House passes HHS appropriations bill for FY 2020

The House of Representatives yesterday voted 226-203 to approve a package of four appropriations bills for fiscal year 2020, which includes legislation that would provide $189.9 billion in base discretionary funding for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education and related agencies.