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Urge Your Representatives to Remove Hospital Cuts from House Social Spending Bill

Please contact your representatives today and urge them to make a number of changes to the Build Back Better Act (H.R.5376) to support patients and communities and the hospitals and health systems that care for them. Specifically, we are asking House lawmakers to eliminate punitive Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) and uncompensated care cuts; remove excessive civil monetary penalties for labor violations; and restore hospital infrastructure funding under the Hill-Burton Act.
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AHA express concern with FTC approach to N.J. hospital merger

AHA, joined by the Association of American Medical Colleges, filed an amicus brief in response to the Federal Trade Commission’s challenge to a hospital merger in New Jersey in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.
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CMS Issues Hospital Outpatient, Ambulatory Surgical Center Final Rule for CY 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nov.
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Advancing Health in America Is a Bipartisan Goal We Can All Get Behind

The convening of the 118th Congress this week is a reminder of Washington’s highly-charged political environment.
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AHA, FAH digital ads urge Congress to protect patients and not cut hospitals

The AHA and Federation of American Hospitals this week are running digital ads in Politico urging Congress to “Protect Patients: Don’t cut hospitals serving our most vulnerable.”
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Senate Finance Committee releases draft mental health parity bill 

The Senate Finance Committee last week released draft legislation to improve mental health parity and access to behavioral health services in Medicare and Medicaid.
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New AHA resource helps hospitals combat workplace violence in health care settings

The AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative, along with the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety, today released Creating Safer Workplaces: A guide to mitigating violence in health care settings.
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Chair File: Gratitude for Our Amazing Health Care Workforce

Thanksgiving is a perfect time to express gratitude to the health care professionals in our families, neighborhoods and communities.
340B Advocacy Alliance Bulletin
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AHA 340B Advocacy Alliance Bulletin - May 19, 2023

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health yesterday advanced a series of health care bills, and voted to pass and send to the full committee a bill that would impose additional reporting requirements on hospitals that participate in the 340B Drug Pricing Program.
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House expected to pass CR funding government programs through Dec. 23; congressional appropriators reach agreement on framework for omnibus spending bill

The House later today is expected to pass a continuing resolution extending the current federal funding levels for health care and other programs through Dec. 23.