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AHA response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ request for information on the Geographic Population-Based Payment model option of the Primary Cares Initiative.
AHA Statement before the House Committee on Budget on Key Design Components and Considerations for Establishing a Single-Payer Health Care System
AHA testimony before the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health on Hearing on Protecting Patients from Surprise Medical Bills
AHA statement before the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives on : Overcoming Racial Disparities and Social Determinants in the Maternal Mortality Crisis.
Reps. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., and Pete Olson, R-Texas, are asking their colleagues to join them in urging House leadership to delay for at least two years the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) cuts scheduled to take effect Oct. 1. 
We have a number of concerns about the report released today by RAND Corp. Most notably the authors themselves point out that the study’s key limitation is its small sample size – less than 5 percent of all covered persons in about half of all states, and just 2 percent of the 181 million Americans…
America’s hospitals and health systems are fully committed to protecting patients from unanticipated medical bills that they may incur because of unexpected gaps in their health coverage or as a result of medical emergencies.