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The AHA Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities examined ways in which the access to and delivery of care could be improved. The global budget strategy may provide the flexibility needed for hospitals in vulnerable communities to provide care in a manner that best fits their…
AHA Statement Before the House Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law Exploring the Effects of Consolidation and Anticompetitive Conduct in Health Care Markets
Texas Health CoLab at Dell Medical School – Austin, TX Co-working Space Is a Catalyst For New Enterprises That Improve Health and Reduce Costs
Hospitals and health systems understand the importance of making health care more affordable for everyone and they “have been tackling the issue head on, taking steps to redesign care and implement operational efficiencies,” AHA told Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., in response to a letter seeking…
AHA's comment on the Food and Drug Administration’s draft guidance on blood glucose monitoring test systems for prescription point-of-care use.
AHA urges the Senate to co-sponsor the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2019 (S. 348), a bipartisan bill, authored by Senators Menendez, Boozman and Schumer, that would increase the number of Medicare-funded residency positions by 15,000 over five years, thereby helping to alleviate…
AHA letter to Congressional leaders requesting a delay the start of the Medicaid disproportionate share hospital cuts, scheduled to begin in fiscal year (FY) 2020.
AHA writes to urge the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to consider alternative payment solutions for Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy.
AHA's comment on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ administrative simplification proposed rule to rescind the adoption of the standard unique Health Plan Identifier (HPID) and Other Entity Identifier (OEID).