Fact Sheets
The American Hospital Association (AHA) fact sheets on important issues facing hospitals and health systems. Fact Sheets define the terms of issues facing hospitals and health systems and provide in-depth explanations of the AHA's position on these issues.
Inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) have faced significant scrutiny from Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in recent years, which has led to multiple interventions, including strict criteria for IRF patients, multiple payment cuts and other policy…
Some members of Congress propose weakening significantly Medicare’s prohibition on physician self-referral to new physician-owned hospitals and loosening restrictions on the growth of grandfathered hospitals. Both H.R. 976, the so-called Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act, and H.R.…
Each year, the American Hospital Association (AHA) collects aggregate information on the payments and costs associated with care delivered to beneficiaries of Medicare and Medicaid by U.S. hospitals. The data used to generate these numbers come from the AHA’s Annual Survey of Hospitals, which is…
Each year, the American Hospital Association (AHA) collects aggregate information on the payments and costs associated with care delivered to beneficiaries of Medicare and Medicaid by U.S. hospitals. The data used to generate these numbers come from the AHA’s Annual Survey of Hospitals, which is…
Get the facts on 8 common misconceptions about the rising costs of prescription drugs.
Fact: Drug spending is significant and growing each year. Drug manufacturers like to point to retail drug spending, which is around 10 percent of total health care spending,i while ignoring total drug spending, which was 16.7 percent (or $457 billion) in 2015
Fact Sheet: Changes to Site-neutral Payment Provisions in CMS's Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule
Section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BiBA) requires that, with the exception of emergency department (ED) services,1 services furnished in off-campus provider-based departments (PBDs) that began billing under the outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) on or after Nov. 2, 2015 (…
Please continue to reach out to your senators, particularly Republican senators, at this critical time. Urge them to reject the AHCA and protect health coverage for as many Americans as possible.
The following is an explanation of hospital charges, payment and costs.