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AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack on Rural Health

Live from the 2018 Rural Health Care Leadership Conference in Phoenix, Arizona.

Pollack, Gragnolati Discuss Challenges, Opportunities for Rural Hospitals

More than 850 rural health care leaders are in Phoenix this week for the 31st Annual AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference.

AHA Recommends Improvements to FCC Rural Health Care Program

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.

Feb. 19 deadline for CAHs to apply for reconsideration of EHR payment adjustment

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.

AHA, others call for Medicaid DSH cut delay, extension of rural programs

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.

AHA Section for Small or Rural Hospitals names 2018 leaders

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.

Federal initiative to focus on broadband access for rural cancer patients

The Federal Communications Commission and National Cancer Institute have signed a memorandum of understanding that will focus on how

FCC addresses Rural Health Care Program, net neutrality

The Federal Communication Commission today agreed to issue a proposed rule that wo

South Dakota hospital leader to receive AHA Rural Hospital Leadership Award

The AHA will present its 2017 Rural Hospital Leadership Award to Bryan Slaba, CEO of Wagner Community Memorial Hospital Avera in Wagner, SD, at its

AHA urges Congress to include hospital priorities in year-end legislation

The AHA today urged Congress to include in year-end legislation a number of policies that impact hospitals and health systems and the patients they serve.