Advisory
AHA Advisories provide urgent information for AHA members and the health care field, and actions they may need to take.
Next Monday marks the beginning of National Patient Safety Awareness Week. This is a good opportunity for you to inform your patients and their families, consumers and the community about the work you and your employees do every day to improve care,
On January 7, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released a proposed regulation for the new hospital value-based purchasing \(VBP\) program. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 \(ACA\) established a Medicare VBP program to pay hospitals for their actual…
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) issued its inpatientpsychiatric facility \(IPF\) prospective payment system \(PPS\) proposed rule for rate year \(RY\) 2012. This proposed rule affects freestanding IPFs, as well as IPF distinct-part units of acute care and critical access…
On January 7, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released a proposed regulation for the new hospital value-based purchasing \(VBP\) program.
On November 2, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released its final rule with comment period for calendar year \(CY\) 2011 with changes to the Medicare physician fee schedule \(PFS\) and other revisions under Medicare Part B.
On November 2, the CMS released the outpatient prospective payment system \(OPPS\) and ambulatory surgical center \(ASC\) final rule for calendar year\(CY\) 2011. This rule implements provisions enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 \(ACA\), including several policies…
On November 2, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released the outpatient prospective payment system \(OPPS\) and ambulatory surgical center \(ASC\) final rule for calendar year \(CY\) 2011. The final rule takes effect January 1, 2011.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published the final rule governing the end-stage renal disease \(ESRD\) prospective payment system \(PPS\) on August 12 in the Federal Register.