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Moving forward, we urge the Measure Applications Partnership (MAP) to take additional steps to more concretely enhance the alignment of quality measurement reporting and payment efforts.
The AHA supports several aspects of CMS’s proposed framework and measures list for the QRS. However, we are concerned that the measures list seems more like a list of available and potentially implementable measures, rather than a list chosen to advance underlying strategic priorities.
AHA Urges Congress to Support RAC Reforms after Long Delays in Assignment of Hospital Appeals to ALJ
The need for fundamental RAC relief has become even more apparent and urgent by operational changes described in the attached memo from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA).
Delays of at least two years in granting an ALJ hearing for an appealed claim are not only unacceptable, they are a direct violation of Medicare statute that requires ALJs to issue a decision within 90 days of receiving the request for hearing.
America’s hospitals strongly oppose a Senate proposal to cut funding for seniors’ Medicare to pay for extended unemployment benefits. While we do not oppose the extension of these benefits, we do oppose using Medicare reductions to pay for non-Medicare related spending
MedPAC indicated that it will not consider the impact of sequestration in its update process until next year, for its FY 2016 recommendations. The AHA is extremely troubled by this framework, which represents an inaccurate and misleading picture of Medicare payments and provider margins.
AHA's comment on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ hospital inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule for fiscal year (FY) 2014.
AHA's comments on the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) proposed rule that would extend the regulatory protections under the federal antikickback law for hospitals that want to provide assistance to physicians in adopting certain health information…
AHA's comments on the CMS proposed rule that would extend the regulatory protections under the federal physician self-referral or Stark law for hospitals that want to provide assistance to physicians in adopting certain health information technology (IT).