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Medicare policy changes and payment adjustments often have significant and problematic consequences for rural providers. AHA is sensitive to the administrative burden and cost created by rules that fail to consider the unique circumstances of small or rural community hospitals.
An updated analysis by Tripp Umbach, a firm specializing in conducting economic impact studies, finds that an additional 83,000 jobs could be lost if the Medicare cuts to hospital care included in H.R. 3630 (legislation extending the Social Security tax holiday, unemployment insurance and the…
Fred Rothstein, M.D., president of University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, will lead the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section for Metropolitan Hospitals as chair of its 24-member governing council for 2012.
The U.S. Supreme Court should uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acts individual mandate because the crisis of uninsurance substantially affects interstate commerce, the AHA and five other national hospital organizations said in a friend-of-the-court brief (insert link) filed today.…
Staci Covey, president of Guthrie's Troy Community Hospital in Troy, Pa., will lead the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Section for Small or Rural Hospitals in 2012.
America's hospitals are very disappointed with the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's (MedPAC) recommendations today regarding changes in Medicare payment to hospitals.
Patricia A. Warner, executive director of the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's and Von Voigtlander Women's Hospitals in Ann Arbor, Mich. is the 2012 chair of the American Hospital Association's Section for Maternal and Child Health.
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Patricia Ostaszewski, chief executive officer (CEO), HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Toms River, N.J. is the 2012 chair of the American Hospital Associations (AHA) Section for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation.
While contending that the individual mandate to purchase health insurance contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is constitutional, if the U.S. Supreme Court finds it unconstitutional the court should rule on the severability of the mandate from the rest of the law and not…