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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should delay implementing the site-neutral provisions of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 until it can provide fair and equitable payment to hospitals for nonexcepted services, AHA told the agency today, commenting on the hospital outpatient…
The AHA supports a number of proposals in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ physician fee schedule proposed rule for calendar year 2017 that would expand Medicare beneficiaries’ access to critically-needed services, the association told the agency in comments …
The AHA last week expressed support for The Sustaining Healthcare Integrity and Fair Treatment Act (H.R. 5713), which would extend 25% Rule relief to long-term care hospital discharges between Oct. 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017.
The AHA last week expressed support for the Independence at Home Act (S. 3130), which would make permanent a Medicare demonstration program that provides primary care to patients at home.
The AHA last week urged the Illinois Supreme Court to reverse an appellate court decision that rejected as unconstitutional the state’s property tax exemption standard for hospitals. “Upholding the appellate court’s decision – and thereby endorsing the unsound principle on…
The Department of Health and Human Services today published an interim final rule that adjusts for inflation the maximum civil monetary penalties that HHS agencies are authorized to assess or enforce under 2015 amendments to the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act. The rule…
Tomorrow is the last day that hospitals can recertify for the 340B Drug Pricing Program. All 340B hospitals are required to recertify annually with the Health Resources and Services Administration to ensure they continue to meet 340B hospital eligibility requirements. To access a recent HRSA…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday awarded $2.4 million in funding to Chicago, Houston, New York City, Philadelphia and Los Angeles County to enhance their information gathering to rapidly detect microcephaly and other birth defects caused by Zika virus.
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.21% in August to a seasonally adjusted 5,102,100 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. That's 10,700 more people than in July and 166,800 more than a year ago. Without the seasonal adjustment, which removes the effect of…
The AHA earlier this week expressed its support for legislation that would make permanent a Medicare demonstration program that provides primary care to patients at home.The 2010 Affordable Care Act created the three-year Independence at Home demonstration program, which Congress last year extended…