Advocacy & Public Policy
Resources from the American Hospital Association (AHA) on advocacy and public policy health care issues.
Featuring former Senator Tom Daschle, the last Senate majority leader of a 50-50 Senate, co-founder of the Bipartisan Policy Center and CEO of the Daschle Group, on how this Congress will work. Daschle spoke with the AHA Board of Trustees Jan. 29, and as an AHA member, you have the opportunity to…
The AHA urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to extend the deadline for hospitals to submit 2020 data for the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program from March 1 to at least May 1, 2021, citing problems this year with the system used to submit the data.
The AHA recently signed on in support of model legislation that states can use to hold health insurers accountable for discriminating against those with mental health and substance use disorders by denying coverage of care.
AHA statement on political giving practices following tragic events at U.S. Capitol.
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack issued the following statement in response to the violence last week at the U.S. Capitol.
The AHA praised a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed rule that would remove inappropriate barriers to patient care by streamlining the prior authorization processes for the impacted health plans; however the association said it was deeply disappointed that CMS chose not to…
AHA urges the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to extend the deadline to comply with its final rule implementing information blocking provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act to 2022 or six months after the end of the…
AHA comments on CMS’ proposed rule on prior authorization.
AHA statement on court delay of most favored nation model interim final rule from Executive Vice President Tom Nickels.
The House and Senate last night approved the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. The legislation includes roughly $900 billion in COVID-19 relief, including a number of provisions beneficial to hospitals and health systems, and $1.4 trillion in spending that will fund the federal government…