Action Alert
黑料正能量 Association (AHA) Action Alerts notify members about advocacy opportunities on health care issues and legislation.
The Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) program provides financial assistance to hospitals serving a disproportionate number of low-income patients and thereby ensures that Medicaid and uninsured patients have access to health care services.
Please contact your representatives today and ask them to sign onto a bipartisan 鈥淒ear Colleague鈥 letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar expressing concern about recent efforts by Kalderos to transition the 340B Drug Pricing Program from one of up-front discounts to鈥
Please contact your representatives today and ask them to sign onto a bipartisan 鈥淒ear Colleague鈥 letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar expressing concern about recent efforts by Kalderos to transition the 340B Drug Pricing Program from one of up-front discounts to鈥
In a letter to congressional leaders today, the AHA, American Medical Association, American Health Care Association, and National Association for Home Care & Hospice said, 鈥淲ithout future sequestration relief, America鈥檚 health care safety net could be at further risk of collapse.
Please contact your representatives today and ask them sign on to a 鈥淒ear Colleague鈥 letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) urging it to reinstate the COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund (PRF) reporting requirements outlined in HHS鈥 June 19 FAQ that defined both expenses and lost鈥
Please contact your Republican senators today and ask them sign on to a 鈥淒ear Colleague鈥 letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) expressing concerns that a Sept. 19 change in HHS鈥 COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund (PRF) reporting requirements will create uncertainty and financial鈥
New definition will have adverse effect on hospitals, especially those serving rural and vulnerable communities
In response to recent actions taken by a number of drug companies to limit the distribution of certain 340B drugs to hospitals and health systems, Reps. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., and David McKinley, R-W.Va., along with Reps. Peter Welch, D-Vt., Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., and鈥
As Congress considers additional (and possibly its last for a while) COVID-19 relief actions, we need to mount a full court press to ensure that hospitals and health systems 鈥 and their front-line caregivers 鈥 receive additional federal support as we navigate the greatest public health and鈥
The AHA has developed comments it will submit to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the agency's proposal to collect negotiated rate information on the Medicare cost report