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Special Bulletin: CMMI Issues Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model Final Rule

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Nov. 26 finalized a new mandatory payment model that will begin on July 1, 2025 and test whether hospital performance-based incentive payments or penalties will increase access to kidney transplants while preserving or enhancing the quality of care and reducing Medicare expenditures. The rule also includes standard provisions that will apply to all CMMI models whose first performance period begins on or after Jan. 1, 2025.
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AHA Asks Congressional Leadership to Fund Hospitals, Protect Health Care Workers

Before the lame-duck session ends and the 118th Congress adjourns, it is essential that federal lawmakers understand the challenges hospitals and health systems face and what is at stake for the patients and communities they represent.
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AHA Urges Congress to Act on Key Priorities in Lame-duck Session

AHA letter urging Congress to act on key priorities in Lame-duck session.
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AHA Statement for Senate Finance Committee Hearing on Rural Health Care

AHA statement on policies to ensure rural patients continue to receive access to high-quality care.
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Fact Sheet: Majority of Hospital Payments Dependent on Medicare or Medicaid

It is broadly acknowledged that Medicare reimburses hospitals less than the cost of providing care and their reimbursement rates are non-negotiable.

CMS Releases Final Rules for CY 2011 Hospital Outpatient/ASC Payment System, Physician Fee Schedule and Home Health Payment System

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An overview of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' three final rules for calendar year 2011 the outpatient prospective payment system and ambulatory surgical center rule, the Me

Fact Sheet: Hospital Costs Explained

The mission of each and every hospital in America is to serve the health care needs of the people in its community 24 hours a day, seven days a week. But, hospitals’ work is made more difficult by our fragmented health care system — a system that leaves millions of people unable to afford the health care services they need.

CMS Releases Proposed Rule for Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a VBP program to pay hospitals for their actual performance on qu