Action Alert
黑料正能量 Association (AHA) Action Alerts notify members about advocacy opportunities on health care issues and legislation.
With both the delta and omicron variants exerting tremendous strain on our health care system, we are calling on Congress to include a number of key priorities to support hospitals and caregivers as part of a must-pass legislative package next month.
Please contact your representatives today and urge them to sign on to a 鈥淒ear Colleague鈥 letter circulating in the House.
A legislative package could be voted on in the House as soon as tonight that would stop upcoming Medicare cuts to hospitals, physicians and other providers that are scheduled to kick in early next year.
Congressional leaders today announced an agreement on a continuing resolution that would fund the government at current levels through Feb. 18. The House is expected to vote on the legislation today and the Senate is expected to take it up soon after as current funding for the government runs out鈥
Congress is back in Washington, D.C. this week with a number of major priorities to tackle before the end of the year. Congress could act as soon as this week on some of these year-end items so it is important that you weigh in now.
The departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury, along with the Office of Personnel Management, Sept. 30 released 鈥淧art 2鈥 of regulations implementing the No Surprises Act. The AHA has developed a model comment letter that hospitals and health systems can use to assist with鈥
Contact your representatives today and urge them to cosponsor the Provider Relief Fund Improvement Act (H.R. 5963).
Please contact your representatives today and urge them to make a number of changes to the Build Back Better Act (H.R.5376) to support patients and communities and the hospitals and health systems that care for them. Specifically, we are asking House lawmakers to eliminate punitive Medicaid鈥
Please contact your representatives today and urge them to eliminate punitive Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) and uncompensated care cuts from the Build Back Better Act (H.R.5376). In the version of the bill that was released Oct. 28, states that have yet to expand their Medicaid鈥
AHA Launches Digital Campaign Reinforcing the Crucial Role of Hospitals in Serving Their Communities
As part of our initiative to balance the narrative and seize the conversation about the crucial role hospitals play, the AHA calls on all hospitals to join this concerted effort to tell the hospital story. With hospitals and health systems serving every corner of this nation, we urge you to raise鈥