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House Passes Appropriations Package for Health Care Funding, Extends Key AHA-supported Health Care Provisions
The House of Representatives Jan. 22 voted 341-88 to pass the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026 (H.R.7148), which contains conferenced legislation for the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development.
Legislation and Legislative Advocacy, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Sequestration Payment Reductions, Cybersecurity, Rural issues, Workforce, Child and Adolescent Health, Maternal Health, Medical Education and Research, Access to Behavioral Health, Substance Use Disorder, Disaster Preparedness, 340B Drug Pricing Program
Fact Sheet: Medicaid DSH Program
The Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) program provides essential financial assistance to hospitals that care for our nation’s most vulnerable populations, including children and those who are disabled and elderly. These hospitals also provide critical community services, such as trauma and burn care, maternal and child health, high-risk neonatal care and disaster preparedness resources.
Healthier Together
The Healthier Together Conference highlights innovative, data-driven strategies to improve health outcomes and reduce health disparities.
White paper explains use of mock claims for advanced explanation of benefits
The AHA Jan. 26 released a white paper on addressing challenges in implementing an advanced explanation of benefits, which requires coordination among multiple providers, health plans and IT systems.
Behavioral Health
This web page is designed to provide easy access to information and tools that will assist hospitals and health systems in navigating the changing behavioral health care system and understanding national, state and local activities affecting behavioral health.
Peer Support Issue Brief
Hospitals and health systems are enhancing the way they deliver care to improve patient care and outcomes, prepare for the future and strengthen sustainability. One key driver to transforming care is expanding the non-clinical workforce to improve patient experience and outcomes and reduce clinical staff burnout. Peer Support Specialists (PSS) can play an impactful role in helping hospitals and health systems achieve these goals. PSS are people with lived experience, living in recovery from psychiatric and/or substance use disorders, who provide non-clinical, strengths-based support to others seeking individualized recovery guidance.
The Mock Claim Proposal: A New Approach to Health Care Cost Transparency
The AHA and other stakeholders have proposed a practical and scalable solution: the mock claim proposal.
Supporting Access to Care in Rural Communities
More than 57 million rural Americans depend on their hospital not only as an important source of care but also as a critical component of their area's economic and social framework. Rural hospitals also face the same difficulties shared by many hospitals — including financial stress, workforce shortages, and inadequate reimbursement from government payers like Medicare and Medicaid, just to name a few. The AHA is engaged in many advocacy efforts to support rural hospitals and ensure access to care in rural communities.
SAMHSA releases guide to strengthen coordination between 988 lifeline, 911 services
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has released a guide to improve coordination between 988 lifeline and 911 emergency services.