Advisory
AHA Advisories provide urgent information for AHA members and the health care field, and actions they may need to take.
After a week of debate, the Senate has zeroed in on its version of an economic recovery bill \(The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act\).
The Economic Recovery Bill: A Detailed Look at the Key Hospital Issues
This roadmap highlights the legislation of interest to hospitals that ismoving on several fronts this week: SCHIP, and the EconomicRecovery package.
Among the top priorities of the new Administration and Congress is the enactment of a legislative package aimed at stimulating the nation's ailing economy. The AHA has been working hard to ensure that issues important to hospitals are included in such a bill.
Late last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released the 2009 final physician fee schedule and other Medicare Part B revisions regulation. The final rule took effect January 1. Major provisions of the rule are highlighted in this advisory.
DOD RELEASES TRICARE OPPS FINAL RULE
The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 contained new electronic prescribing \(eRx\) incentives that offer a 2 percent additional payment for outpatient physician eRx in 2009. The Medicare physician fee schedule final rule for 2009, published in the November 19 Federal…
On October 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released the outpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\) and ambulatory surgical center \(ASC\) final rule for calendar year 2009.
Recent attention in the media has refocused the public's attention on executivecompensation. With this renewed interest, it is critical that your hospital isprepared to respond to public and media inquiries around the compensation ofyour top executives.
On October 3, President Bush signed into law a large financial rescue package that included mental health parity legislation \(H.R. 1424\).