Advisory
AHA Advisories provide urgent information for AHA members and the health care field, and actions they may need to take.
CMS proposed changes to the hospital cost report in the July 2 Federal Register. The proposed modifications affect reporting of contract labor and benefit costs, uncompensated care data, and medical supply and device costs, among other items.
This regulatory advisory examines CMS' outpatient prospective payment system \(OPPS\) and ambulatory surgical center \(ASC\) proposed rule for calendar year \(CY\) 2010. We encourage CEOs to share this advisory with their senior management team and use our spreadsheets to model the impact of the…
On Tuesday, July 14, House leaders introduced the America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 \(H.R. 3200\). The ")tri-committee") health care reform bill is the product of the chairmen of three key House committees: Ways & Means, Energy & Commerce and Education & Labor.
On June 19, House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel \(D-NY\), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman \(D-CA\) and Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller \(D-CA\) released their draft health care reform legislation.
On May 22, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published in the Federal Register its hospital inpatient and long-term care hospital \(LTCH\) prospective payment system \(PPS\) proposed rule for federal fiscal year \(FY\) 2010.
Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 created new reporting requirements that will apply to many hospitals under the Medicare Secondary Payer \(MSP\) law. Hospitals that self-insure \(as defined by MSP\) their liability or self-fund a workers' compensation plan or a…
As your national representative, the AHA is working to ensure that the needs of hospitals and the communities they serve are reflected in any health care reform legislation that is passed this year.
On May 12, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published Federal Register the Medicare skilled nursing facility \(SNF\) prospective payment system \(PPS\) proposed rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2010.