Advocacy & Public Policy
Resources from the American Hospital Association (AHA) on advocacy and public policy health care issues.
AHA Letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders on Mental Health Bill.
AHA letter to the Department of Health and Human Services regarding medication-assisted treatment for opiod user disorders.
Read complete coverage of the AHA Annual meeting, including news from top AHA leaders, federal lawmakers, government officials and more. Experts air proposals to rein in rising prescription drug prices
This year’s wildly unpredictable presidential campaign and a truncated legislative calendar has Congress less active and more cautious than usual, AHA Executive Vice President Tom Nickels told AHA members today at the 2016 Annual Membership Meeting. Congressional leaders are looking ahead to 2017…
In a rapidly changing health care environment, all hospitals seek a path forward that “leads to better health outcomes, better services at lower cost,” AHA Chairman Jim Skogsbergh said Sunday, following his investiture at the AHA Annual Membership Meeting in Washington, D.C. “But how each of us…
Kicking off the AHA annual meeting’s Federal Forum, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack today told hospital and health system leaders that redefining the “H” can secure hospital’s critical role in public life and responds to the growing demands of managing chronic illnesses and consumerism. It also…
In a taped video message delivered to the annual meeting, Sen.
AHA comments to HHS on the proposed revision to the regulation governing the confidentiality of substance use disorder patients' records.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday issued a final rule applying certain provisions of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) of 2008 to Medicaid managed care organizations, Medicaid alternative benefit plans (ABPs) and the Children's Health…