Search Results
The default setting for search results displays All Content. If you prefer to see recent content only, please adjust the date filter.
Filter your results:
Types
Topics
191 Results Found
Contact Your Lawmakers and Urge Them to Extend Key Health Care Policies Set to Expire Next Month
Please ask your senators and representatives to prevent Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payment cuts from taking effect; extend enhanced low-volume adjustment and Medicare-dependent hospital programs that expand access to care in rural areas; and extend telehealth and hospital-at-home waivers.
AHA, others urge Congress to reauthorize and expand workforce program for foreign-born staff
The AHA and dozens of other organizations yesterday urged House and Senate sponsors of the Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act to reauthorize and expand the program which allows foreign-born medical graduates trained in the U.S. to practice medicine in rural and underserved areas.
AHA opposes legislation allowing physician self-referrals, POH expansion
The AHA March 27 voiced opposition to the Physician Led and Rural Access to Quality Care Act (H.R. 2191), a bill that would lift the ban on the establishment of physician-owned hospitals in certain rural areas and permit the unfettered expansion of POHs nationwide, regardless of location.
AHA Amicus Brief in 5th Circuit Court Challenges FTC Non-compete Rule
AHA Amicus Brief in 5th Circuit Court Challenges FTC Non-compete Rule.
House and Senate Pass Continuing Resolution Funding Government, Averting Shutdown
Today, the Senate voted 54-46 to pass a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government through Sept. 30 and avoid a government shutdown.
AHA discusses how Congress can improve support for post-acute care
The AHA March 11 shared ways Congress could better support patient access to post-acute care in comments for a hearing held by the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health.
House passes continuing resolution to fund government through September, extend key health care provisions
The House of Representatives March 11 voted 217-213 to pass a continuing resolution to fund the federal government through Sept. 30.
As part of AHA Advocacy Day, hospital leaders urge Congress to protect patient access to care
More than 150 hospital and health system leaders March 4 participated in an AHA Advocacy Day briefing in Washington, D.C., to get the latest updates on key issues before meeting with lawmakers and their staff on Capitol Hill.
Senate passes budget resolution; House plans to vote on its own resolution next week
The U.S. Senate voted 52-48, after a 10-hour “vote-a-rama" session, to adopt a budget resolution for fiscal year 2025 focusing on the border, military and energy. The bill would authorize roughly $340 billion in spending and be fully offset by corresponding spending cuts.
As House and Senate consider separate budget resolutions, AHA urges Congress to ‘take seriously the impact of reductions in health care programs, particularly Medicaid’
House Republicans Feb. 12 released a budget resolution for fiscal year 2025 focusing on the Trump administration's agenda on border security, defense, energy and taxes.