Special Bulletin
The American Hospital Association (AHA) sends members Special Bulletins on the latest health care news, legislation, and advocacy opportunities for hospitals and health systems.
The AHA and other hospital organizations today asked a federal court to prevent the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from implementing a regulation that would restrict how states fund their Medicaid programs and pay public hospitals
President Bush today unveiled a fiscal year \(FY\) 2009 federal budget proposal that would cut an unprecedented 82 billion from Medicare over the next five years, and 7 billion from Medicaid.
Today through February 15, hospital leaders can preview their initial HCAHPS survey data through the QualityNet Exchange Web site at www.qualitynet.org.
Physician fee schedule final rule also released
House and Senate negotiators today tentatively agreed on legislation that partially addresses our concerns about the inpatient prospective payment system \(IPPS\) cuts of 0 billion over five years in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' \(CMS\) IPPS rule for fiscal year 2008.
The Employee Free Choice Act \(S. 1041/ H.R. 800\) the ")card check") bill - failed in the Senate today. During a procedural vote to determine whether the bill itself would be brought up for consideration, supporters failed to attract the necessary 60 ")yeas,") instead garnering only 51.
The Internal Revenue Service today released the long-promised draft revision of IRS Form 990.
The Iraq-Afghanistan supplemental spending bill was passed last night by the House and Senate.