Rural issues
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host an Oct. 27 webinar on the Physician Quality Reporting System for physicians and other eligible professionals who bill for outpatient services provided in critical access hospitals using CAH Method II. During the 60-minute webinar, which鈥
Passage of the Protecting Access to Rural Therapy Services Act, or PARTS Act, H.R. 1611/S. 257, the Critical Access Hospital Relief Act, H.R. 169/S. 258, and the Rural Community Hospital (RCH) Demonstration Extension Act, H.R. 672/S. 607, are key parts of the AHA鈥檚 rural hospital advocacy agenda.鈥
Passage of the Protecting Access to Rural Therapy Services Act, or PARTS Act, H.R. 1611/S. 257, the Critical Access Hospital Relief Act, H.R. 169/S. 258, and the Rural Community Hospital (RCH) Demonstration Extension Act, H.R. 672/S. 607, are key parts of the AHA鈥檚 rural hospital advocacy agenda.鈥
AHA to Sen. Klobuchar Expressing Support for the Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Act ( S. 1189)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services anticipates that the July update to the Hospital Compare website will include performance data reported voluntarily by critical access hospitals, the agency told AHA, quickly responding to an AHA letter expressing 鈥渄eep disappointment鈥 that the鈥
Rural hospital leaders today made their case for regulatory relief from federal policies 鈥 like the 96-hour physician certification requirement, direct physician supervision of outpatient therapeutic services and interoperability standards for health information technology 鈥 at a briefing on鈥