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The AHA today announced its support for an agreement on health care reform that expands health coverage to 95% of Americans while capping at 55 billion over 10 years the amount of hospital spending cuts that would be used to help achieve that goal.
A Patient-centered, Performance-driven Approach to Managing Psychiatric Patients in the Emergency Department Maine Medical Center and Spring Harbor Hospital, Greater Portland, ME Summary
CMS RELEASES PROPOSED RULES FOR CY 2010 OPPS/ASC AND PHYSICIAN FEE SCHEDULE
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.
These numbers represent rough 10 year estimates for advocacy purposes based on publicly available data from CMS. These numbers should not be used for budgeting purposes
House 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 \(D-CA\) today 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.