Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy
The Food and Drug Administration is forming a work group to explore whether and how to temporarily import suitable substitutes for critical drugs with only one manufacturer.
AHA expresses disappointment that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is shutting down the National Guidelines Clearinghouse.
On June 25, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a Request for Information (RFI) regarding the physician self-referral law, more commonly known as the Stark law. CMS published the RFI to further its efforts to remove unnecessary obstacles to care coordination and鈥
The AHA is very pleased that CMS is taking action to improve the operation of the Stark law and counteract its chilling effect on innovation.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a proposed rule that would eliminate 2014 regulatory text allowing states to reassign Medicaid payments to third parties on behalf of certain providers.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 2 issued a proposed rule that would update home health prospective payment system payments for calendar year 2019 and change the HH quality reporting program.
The AHA today submitted comments on the long-term care hospital payment and quality reporting provisions included in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 proposed rule for the hospital inpatient and LTCH prospective payment system for fiscal year 2019.
Comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the fiscal year (FY) 2019 proposed rule for the inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPF) prospective payment system (PPS) and quality reporting updates.
On behalf of our nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations, and our clinician partners 鈥 including more than 270,000 affiliated physicians, 2 million nurses and other caregivers 鈥 and the 43,000 health care leaders who belong to our professional membership鈥
The Department of Labor today released a final rule that modifies the definition of 鈥渆mployer鈥 under federal law such that more individuals, including sole proprietors, are eligible to participate in association health plans based on geography or industry.