Finance & Budgeting
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) late Feb. 7 issued supplemental guidance that updates negotiated indirect cost rates for new and existing NIH grants. Specifically, the agency will apply a straight 15% indirect cost rate across all new and existing grant awards.
The White House Feb. 1 announced it placed tariffs on imported goods from Canada, Mexico and China.
The White House Office of Management and Budget Jan. 29 rescinded a memo it issued two days earlier directing federal agencies to temporarily pause federal grants, loans and other financial assistance programs implicated by President Trump鈥檚 recent executive orders.
A report released Jan. 9 by Kaufman Hall highlights hospital and health system merger and acquisition activity from last year.
The U.S. spent $4.9 trillion on health care in 2023 鈥 a 7.5% increase from 2022 鈥 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported Dec. 18 in Health Affairs.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services estimates national health spending grew 7.5% in 2023, reflecting increases in insurance growth, the agency reported June 12 in Health Affairs.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is supposedly committed to being 鈥渁n authoritative voice for fiscal responsibility,鈥 which is why it鈥檚 so 鈥渄isappointing that they would propose something so irresponsible in a new report 鈥 repealing nonprofit hospitals鈥 tax exemption,鈥 writes AHA鈥
AHA Board Chair-elect Tina Freese Decker, CEO of Michigan-based Corewell Health, May 21 addressed more than 400 hospital and health system leaders and investors at the 2024 Not-for-Profit Health Care Investor Conference in New York City.
Hospitals and health systems nationwide saw a sizable increase in delayed or missing payments in first quarter 2024, according to a report released May 10 by Strata on health care performance trends.
AHA urged leaders of the Senate and House Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education to give favorable funding consideration in fiscal year 2025 to health care programs shown to improve access to quality health care for patients and communities.