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The AHA supports a number of provisions in the inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year 2016, but is concerned about the rule鈥檚 cuts to disproportionate share hospital payments, lack of data transparency and certain proposed changes to the Inpatient Quality Reporting鈥
The Health Resources and Services Administration today released a proposed rule on drug ceiling prices and civil monetary penalties for manufacturers in the 340B Drug Pricing Program.
The National Committee on Vital Health Statistics should investigate barriers to greater use of adopted Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act transaction standards and identify solutions, the AHA today told an NCVHS panel.
The House Appropriations Committee today released draft legislation that would provide $153 billion in discretionary funding for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and related agencies in fiscal year 2016, $3.7 billion less than this year.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will conduct in July a 鈥渄ry run鈥 of a new outpatient colonoscopy measure for the hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgical center quality reporting programs beginning in 2018. The dry run will allow CMS to test the data production鈥
Hospital leaders today briefed congressional staff on the important role that Medicare鈥檚 support for graduate medical education (GME) plays in helping teaching hospitals train the next generation of health care providers and urged Congress to provide adequate funding to support these efforts.
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law today held a hearing on the Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules (SMARTER) Act, AHA-supported legislation that would standardize the merger review process for the Department of Justice (DOJ)鈥
The AHA supports a number of provisions in the inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule for fiscal year 2016, but is concerned about the rule鈥檚 cuts to disproportionate share hospital payments, lack of data transparency and certain proposed changes to the Inpatient Quality鈥
The AHA today expressed serious concern with certain aspects of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 proposal for implementing a site-neutral payment component to the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System for cost reporting periods beginning on or after Oct. 1, 2015.
One in five Medicaid beneficiaries had a behavioral health condition in 2011, and these individuals accounted for almost half of total Medicaid expenditures, according to a report released to Congress today by the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission.