Letter/Comment
The latest advocacy letters and comments from the American Hospital Association.
The AHA expresses support for the bipartisan Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (H.R. 8094), legislation that aims to reduce and prevent burnout, behavioral disorders and suicide among health care professionals. View the House and Senate letters under Key Resources below…
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.
The 115 undersigned national organizations dedicated to improving maternal health urge you to swiftly pass the bipartisan Maternal Health Quality Improvement Act (H.R. 4995) and the bipartisan Helping MOMS Act of 2020 (H.R. 4996) as soon as possible – whether as part of the next spending package or…
Letter from AHA and other national organizations to congressional leaders urging passage of two maternal health quality improvement bills.
The AHA urge Congressional leaders to support the bipartisan Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act (H.R. 6788/S.3599), and include it in forthcoming COVID-19 relief legislation
AHA comments on the Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed rule to set expiration dates for its regulations (subject to certain exceptions), unless the department periodically assesses the regulations to determine if they are subject to review, and if they are, performs a review. Subject…
The AHA asks the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take additional steps to increase flexibilities for providers responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nineteen organizations representing physicians and hospitals, including the AHA, urge congressional leaders to support legislation to freeze the thresholds for clinicians to qualify for advanced alternative payment model incentive payments for the 2021 and 2022 performance years.
Confronting the challenges of the pandemic is imperative to saving American lives. Real-time data and information on the supply of therapeutics, testing supplies, personal protective equipment, ventilators, hospital bed capacity and workforce availability to plan for further deployment of the…
The Department of Health and Human Services should fully reinstate its June COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund reporting requirements, AHA said again today in a letter to the agency.