Rural issues
The Federal Communications Commission should increase the funding cap for the Rural Health Care Program to at least account for inflation since the program began, and at the rate of inflation moving forward, AHA told the agency in comments submitted today.
AHA comments to the FCC on Promoting Telehealth in Rural Areas
This year’s flu season is more intense than any since the 2009 swine flu pandemic and it is still getting worse.
The Class of 2020 profiles the women and men who joined the AHA board this year.
Critical access hospitals that did not achieve meaningful use in the Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program for the 2016 reporting period or receive a hardship exception will see their Medicare payments reduced to 100% of their reasonable costs in fiscal year 2018.
Rural hospitals provide essential health care services to some 57 million people. Because of their size, modest assets and financial reserves, and higher percentages of Medicare patients, small and rural hospitals disproportionately rely on government payments.
National hospital organizations, including the AHA, today urged Congress to include in the short-term continuing resolution under consideration this week a two-year delay in Medicaid disproportionate share hospital cuts.
Joan Coffman, president and CEO of Hospital Sisters Health System St. Mary’s Hospital in Decatur, IL, will lead the AHA's Section for Small or Rural Hospitals in 2018. Coffman will chair the section's 19-person governing council, which represents small or rural hospitals in the AHA's policy process…
Method I Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs)
Under Method I, the CAH bills Medicare for facility services and clinicians’ professional services separately under the physician fee schedule (PFS). In this case, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will not make MIPS adjustments to a…