AHA letter requesting the Biden Administration exercise enforcement discretion with respect to compliance with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ hospital price transparency final rule requiring hospitals to make public, effective Jan. 1, 2021, all of the rates they negotiate with commercial health insurers.
Letters
Throughout the year, the AHA comments on a vast number of proposed and interim final rules put forth by the federal regulatory agencies. In addition, AHA communicates with federal legislators to convey the hospital field's position on potential legislative changes that would impact patients and patient care. Below are the most recent letters from the AHA to these bodies.
Latest
AHA letter to Ways & Means Chairman Neal and Ranking Member Brady thanking them for addressing surprise medical billing as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021
December 18, 2020
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Speaker
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Capitol Building, H-222
Washington, DC 20515
December 18, 2020
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Speaker
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and John Thune, R-S.D., introduced the Improving Seniors' Tmely Access to Care Act (S. 5044), bipartisan legislation that would require Medicare Advantage plans to establish an electronic prior authorization system and provide “real-time” decisions for routine services and items. This bipartisan legislation makes tremendous strides toward streamlining the prior authorization process, and the AHA looks forward to working with Senator Brown in the next Congress to address this critical issue for patients and providers.
Our members provide health care to the more than 62 million Medicare beneficiaries. We urge you to include in year-end legislation an extension of the congressionally-enacted moratorium on the application of the Medicare sequester cuts into 2021 and through the duration of the public health emergency (PHE).
The Honorable Richard E. Neal
Chairman
Ways & Means Committee
U.S. House of Representatives
AHA letter that outlines initial policy priorities for Biden Administration first 100 days.
The AHA expresses support for the bipartisan Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (H.R.
The AHA expresses support for the bipartisan Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (S. 4349), legislation that aims to reduce and prevent burnout, behavioral disorders and suicide among health care professionals.