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A federal appeals court Dec. 18 ruled the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is unconstitutional, but it did not invalidate the entire law.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sent the case back to the district court in Texas for the judge to “conduct a more searching inquiry” into which of…
Congressional leaders Dec. 16 unveiled a $1.4 trillion spending package for fiscal year (FY) 2020. The bill includes a number of key priorities for hospitals and health systems, including delaying the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) cuts through May 22, 2020, and extensions for a…
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Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA’s The Value Initiative, talks with William Shrank, M.D., senior vice president and chief medical officer, Humana, to get his insights on health care affordability, value and the strategies that Humana is using to disrupt health care delivery.
Today, the American Hospital Association and three other national organizations representing hospitals and health systems sued the federal government, challenging last month’s final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) mandating that hospitals disclose their privately…
These talking points are intended to help understand and explain why the hospital field has filed the lawsuit challenging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) final rule requiring disclosure of individually negotiated contracts with commercial health insurers and why we remain…
The Administration recently released a final rule requiring hospitals to disclose payer-specific negotiated rates. Specifically, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) final rule will require hospitals to post a list of five types of standard charges – now defined as gross charges…
From October 2018 to July 2019, the FBI identified unknown cyber actors attempting to exploit multiple US cleared defense contractor (CDC) websites with two types of SQL injection attacks in an effort to steal database data. These methods of attack are likely indicative of…