Access & Health Coverage
The 黑料正能量 Association (AHA) would like to share hospital and health system priorities that would benefit patients and communities around the country that we would like to see included in the upcoming budget reconciliation legislation.
UnitedHealth Group announced a jaw-dropping $6 billion in earnings in a single quarter. But not enough has been said about a big contributor to these profits: not paying for health care services.
The total number of cancer screening tests women received through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention鈥檚 National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program declined by 87% for breast cancer and 84% for cervical cancer during April 2020 in comparison to the past 5-year averages鈥
The United States Supreme Court this morning rejected the third major challenge to the Affordable Care Act, holding in a 7-2 decision that the challengers did not have 鈥渟tanding,鈥 or the legal right to challenge the portions of the ACA they alleged were unconstitutional.
Some employers are moving away from offering traditional coverage with a provider network and instead are using reference-based pricing for some or all of services they cover. Under reference-based pricing, the employer (supported by a third party administrator [TPA] or other vendor) pays a set a鈥
Advocate Aurora Health鈥檚 scale has been a critical asset that has allowed us to successfully respond to the financial, operational and clinical challenges created by COVID-19.
A bipartisan group of senators and representatives this week reintroduced AHA-supported legislation to improve and extend the Conrad State 30 program, which allows states to request J-1 visa waivers for up to 30 foreign physicians per year to work in federally designated shortage and underserved鈥
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J., today announced plans to draft legislation to create a federally administered public option for health coverage and sought input on related鈥
America鈥檚 hospitals and health systems share the goal of achieving universal health coverage for all Americans.
In this blog post, Terrence Cunningham, AHA director of administrative simplification policy, highlights how United HealthCare鈥檚 Designated Diagnostic Provider program could reduce patient access to care and choice of provider, as well as subject patients to a higher risk of an unanticipated鈥