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The AHA today submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) on its hospital inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2010. Our 32-page letter details the AHA's views on numerous provisions in the rule, particularly our concerns with…
President Obama on Saturday during his weekly address to the nation announced he will seek nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars in additional cuts from Medicare and Medicaid payments to hospitals to help finance health care reform.
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.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on May 6 published in the Federal Register the inpatient rehabilitation facility \(IRF\) prospective payment system \(PPS\) proposed rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2010.
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Signed into law on May 20, the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 \(FERA\) is primarily directed at protection against mortgage fraud. However, the FERA also contains several significant expansions of the federal civil False Claims Act \(FCA\), which has not been altered in more than 20…
In fulfillment of the hospital field's May 11 commitment to the Obama Administration to develop concrete ideas to reduce the rate of growth in health care spending, the AHA and five other national health care organizations today submitted a letter outling cost containment actions to the White House…
Health Care Labor Report: Labor activity, trends & events \(Edition: May 2009\)
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus \(D-MT\) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley \(R-IA\) on May 18 released a set of policy options for financing comprehensive health care reform. The paper seeks to lay out for Senate Finance Committee \(SFC\) members a series of options to reduce Medicare…