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AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to 鈥渆xert greater oversight鈥 to ensure that both state governments and Medicaid managed care organizations operating in the states comply with mental health parity standards.
The House Committee on Veterans鈥 Affairs Subcommittee on Health today held a hearing on the 鈥淰A鈥檚 ability to promptly pay non-VA providers.鈥 Testifying for the AHA, Vince Leist, president and CEO of North Arkansas Regional Medical Center, highlighted hospitals鈥
The Senate Finance Committee today approved by voice vote the Chairman鈥檚 Mark of the Audit & Appeal Fairness, Integrity, and Reforms in Medicare Act of 2015, a bipartisan bill to make changes to the Medicare audit and appeals process. The bill would make several changes to how鈥
A lack of prompt payment by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and its contractors 鈥渉inders access to care for veterans who need non-VA services and undermines the viability of non-VA hospitals and the essential services they provide to their communities,鈥 an AHA witness June 3鈥
AHA Executive Vice President Rick Pollack recently talked to AHA News about the funding challenges facing hospitals. Listen in here.
The House Ways and Means Committee today approved 10 health care-related bills, including legislation that would provide certain exceptions to the moratorium on new long-term care hospital beds and facilities; a package of bills to reform the Medicare Advantage program; and a bill to repeal the鈥
The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to quickly finalize the shorter, 90-day reporting period for 2015 meaningful use of electronic health records and other proposals to make Stage 2 requirements more flexible. In addition, CMS should allow hospitals to choose鈥
Medicare claims processing systems are ready to accept ICD-10 claims on Oct. 1, based on results from the second ICD-10 end-to-end testing week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today. About 875 health care providers and billing companies submitted more than 23,000鈥
Leaders of the Senate Special Committee on Aging yesterday expressed concerns with the Food and Drug Administration鈥檚 draft guidance for compounding and repackaging biologics.
The AHA today participated in a White House forum on ways to improve responsible antibiotic use, where more than 150 stakeholders committed to help thwart the public health and national security threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.