COVID-19: Coverage and Reimbursement
黑料正能量 Association (AHA) resources on health care coverage and reimbursement issues related to COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2.
An AHA report released finds that the financial strain facing hospitals and health systems due to COVID-19 will continue through at least 2020, with total losses expected to be at least $323 billion in 2020.
New AHA report finds that the financial losses for hospitals and health systems due to the COVID-19 pandemic have deepened.
Please join AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and AHA Executive Vice President Tom Nickels June 30 at 2 p.m. ET for a special live presentation as part of an AHA Virtual Advocacy Day. They will give the latest updates on the next COVID-19 relief package and provide resources and ways you can鈥
The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 was enacted, in part, to develop a unified payment model for the post-acute care (PAC) field, recognizing that payment needed to be modernized for the four PAC settings 鈥 home health (HH) agencies, skilled nursing facilities鈥
On behalf of our nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations, and our clinician partners 鈥 including 3,000 post-acute care providers, the 黑料正能量 Association (AHA) writes in support of resetting the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (鈥
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is 鈥渃ommitted to monitoring the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic鈥 on the financial institutions it supervises, and 鈥渨ill not hesitate to take additional action to provide clarity and guidance, as needed," FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams saidvin letter鈥
The AHA urged the Health and Human Services Secretary to extend the public health emergency beyond its current July 25, 2020 expiration date so 鈥渉ealth care providers can continue to offer the most efficient and effective care possible during the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.鈥
With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations spiking in a number of states, hospitals and health systems 鈥 and the women and men on the front lines 鈥 continue to battle the virus. At the same time, hospitals continue to confront the greatest financial crisis in their history, as our recent report鈥
The Department of Health and Human Services updated its FAQs on the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act emergency relief fund, with specific attention to provider reporting related to these funds.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently updated its FAQs on the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act emergency relief fund, with specific attention to provider reporting related to these funds.