AHA urges the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure hospitals currently participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program continue to have access to the program despite changes in their payer mix as a result of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE).
Letters
Throughout the year, the AHA comments on a vast number of proposed and interim final rules put forth by the federal regulatory agencies. In addition, AHA communicates with federal legislators to convey the hospital field's position on potential legislative changes that would impact patients and patient care. Below are the most recent letters from the AHA to these bodies.
Latest
Twenty organizations, including the AHA, urge congressional appropriators to provide $485 million in fiscal year 2022 funding for the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program.
The AHA offers initial recommendations to the departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury and Labor as they develop guidance to implement the No Surprises Act.
The AHA asks that commissioners consider the following issues as they recommend changes that would have a significant impact on hospitals, health systems and the Medicare patients we serve.
AHA letter to Representative Joe Courtney expressing concern with the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act (H.R. 1195)
In a letter Senators Marsha Blackburn, Richard Durbin, Lisa Murkowski, and Tina Smith, the AHA expresses support for the Rural America Health Corps Act (S.924).
In a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the AHA expresses concerns about the recent denials of our members’ requests for a “mid-build exception.” These denials result in inappropriately reduced payment rates for items and services furnished by certain off-campus provider-based departments (PBDs) that first billed Medicare for services furnished on or after Nov. 2, 2015.
AHA letter to Senators Rober Menendez, Charles E. Schumer and John Boozman, expressing support for the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2021 (S.834).
AHA urges the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to extend the five-year window for building medical residency programs to account for the COVID-19 public health emergency.
AHA letter to Senators, John Thune, Rob Portman, Shelley Moore Capito, Tammy Baldwin, Debbie Stabenow and Ben Cardin expressing support for legislation, S. 773.