Medicare
AHA comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ hospital inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year 2019.
- Medicare
- Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS)
- Medicare DSH
- Electronic Health Records (EHRs) - Meaningful Use
- Health Information Technology (HIT)
- Interoperability
- Medicare Area Wage Index (AWI)
- Hospital Readmission Reduction Program
- Value-based payment
- Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program
- Electronic Clinical Quality Measures
- Quality & Patient Safety
- Quality Measures
The House Budget Committee yesterday voted 21-13 to approve a fiscal year 2019 budget resolution that would balance the budget within nine years.
AHA and three member hospitals today recommended to a federal district court four non-deadline remedies to reduce the backlog of Medicare billing appeals awaiting adjudication at the Administrative Law Judge level.
On behalf of our nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations, and our clinician partners – including more than 270,000 affiliated physicians, 2 million nurses and other caregivers – and the 43,000 health care leaders who belong to our professional membership…
This study study, commissioned by the Federation of American Hospitals and the American AHA, examined how eleven pieces of legislation combined with numerous regulatory changes would affect hospital funding from 2010 through 2028.
Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA) today introduced an AHA-supported bill that would make changes to the 340B drug savings program, including overturning last year’s significant Medicare payment reduction for many hospitals in the program and adding program integrity requirements for drug manufacturers…
Letter to the Senate Finance Committee leadership supporting the Helping to End Addiction and Lessen (HEAL) Substance Use Disorders Act of 2018.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today finalized without changes its “extreme and uncontrollable circumstances” policy for hospitals participating in the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Payment Model.
The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will have sufficient funds to cover its obligations until 2026, three years earlier than projected last year, according to the latest annual report from the Medicare Board of Trustees.
Total reimbursement for brand-name prescription drugs in Medicare Part D increased 77% between 2011 and 2015, nearly six times faster than inflation, despite a 17% decrease in the number of prescriptions.