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As hospitals and health systems continue to feel the effects of the unprecedented cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Change Healthcare, the AHA has been in conversations with Congress and the Administration urging them to act and provide support to ensure providers can continue caring for鈥
Commercial health plan abuses must be addressed to ensure fair coverage for patients and providers. The AHA has worked to hold health plans accountable through letters, statements, white papers, member updates and earned media.
The Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Expansion Act (S. 2840) includes a provision that would prevent doctors and hospitals from negotiating reasonable agreements with commercial health insurance plans.
A series of recent developments in Congress are adding significant urgency to AHA鈥檚 fight against site-neutral payment and other policies that would irreparably damage hospitals鈥 abilities to care for their communities, including a move to use rate setting that would offer commercial insurers a鈥
Congress continues to discuss a number of proposals that would enact additional site-neutral payment cuts. The AHA strongly opposes these proposals because they would reduce Medicare payments to hospitals and health systems, creating a significantly negative impact on the field鈥檚 financial鈥
Urge Your Reps to Sign House 鈥楧ear Colleague鈥 Letter, Sponsor Bill to Stop Medicaid DSH Payment Cuts
Reps. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., Dan Crenshaw, R-T.X., Diana DeGette, D-Colo.., and Michael Burgess, R-T.X., are spearheading a 鈥淒ear Colleague鈥 letter urging House leadership to take action to prevent the pending cuts to Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments, which are scheduled to鈥
The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight April 26 will hold a hearing that will include discussion of hospitals鈥 and health systems鈥 status as tax-exempt organizations and the IRS鈥 community benefit standard. We ask that you reach out to your representative on the Ways and Means鈥
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health is expected to hold a follow-up hearing on transparency and competition in health care. The AHA appreciates your outreach in advance of the March 28 hearing; however, based on the comments representatives made during the recent hearing, it is鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Dec. 14 issued its Medicare Advantage (MA) proposed rule for contract year 2024. The AHA has developed a model comment letter that hospitals and health systems can use to assist with submitting their own comments on the proposed rule to CMS.
Hospital and health system leaders can register for a Dec. 6 AHA Advocacy Day event in Washington, D.C. The in-person event will take place from 10 a.m. to noon ET. Attendees also can participate in a networking event on Monday evening, Dec. 5.