Letter/Comment
The latest advocacy letters and comments from the American Hospital Association.
The AHA appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) “Make Your Voice Heard” Request for Information (RFI) on promoting equity and efficiency in CMS programs. As requested in the RFI, we submitted our key recommendations using CMS’s electronic…
November 4, 2022
Roxanne Rothschild
Executive Secretary
National Labor Relations Board
1015 Half Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20570-0001
RE: RIN 3142-AA21; Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), The Standard for Determining Joint-Employer Status
Dear Ms. Rothschild and Members of the National…
AHA letter to Representatives Bera, Bucshon, Schrier, Burgess, Blumenauer, Wenstrup, Schneider and Miller-Meeks regarding a request for feedback on stabilizing the Medicare payment system.
November 1, 2022
The Honorable Chiquita Brooks-LaSure
Administrator
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
7500 Security Blvd
Baltimore, MD 21244
Re: CMS-2421-P Streamlining the Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program, and Basic Health Program Application, Eligibility Determination,…
We are in the open enrollment season for Medicare, the Health Insurance Marketplaces and many private employers, during which hundreds of millions of Americans will select their health plan for the next calendar year. We are increasingly concerned by the conduct of some commercial health insurance…
As Congress begins to focus on its end of the year agenda for 2022, America’s hospitals and health systems respectfully request that you consider the following priorities.
The Federation of American Hospitals and the American Hospital Association urge Congress to oppose H.R. 1330 / S. 4130 and any other legislation that would repeal or weaken current law limiting self-referral to physician owned hospitals.
AHA comments on the Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed rule to reinstate the regulatory protections against discrimination in covered health care programs and activities contained in Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.
The American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association and the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) urge the CMS not to include a convening/co-provider framework when implementing the Advanced Explanation of Benefits and insured good faith estimate provisions under the No…
AHA comments to MedPAC regarding topics to be discussed at the commissioner’s September meeting.