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District court invalidates additional No Surprises Act regulations
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas for a third time ruled to set aside certain regulations implementing the No Surprises Act.
The Buzz from the 2023 AHA Leadership Summit
Here’s what experts say health systems will need to do to build a future-ready workforce, achieve health equity goals and deliver care closer to home.
5 Insights from the AHA Leadership Summit
How to plan, execute and accelerate redesigned health care dominated discussions at the recent AHA Leadership Summit in Seattle, as hospital and health system leaders, retail care providers, innovators and entrepreneurs came together to assess what’s next for the field.
Inadequate Health Insurance Coverage Drives Medical Debt – Four Solutions to Address this Significant Problem
Trends in health insurance coverage are driving an increase in medical debt: these include inadequate enrollment in comprehensive health care coverage and high-deductible and skinny health plans that intentionally push more costs onto patients.
AHA Statement of Record for House Ways and Means Committee July 26, 2023
The American Hospital Association would like to provide feedback on sections of H.R. 4822, the “Health Care Price Transparency Act of 2023,” as well as H.R. 3284, the “Providers and Payers COMPETE Act.”
Federal judge strikes down No Surprises Act IDR fee increase, batching restrictions; CMS suspends IDR process in response
The federal government must vacate nationwide its federal fee increase and batching rule for the No Surprises Act’s independent dispute resolution process for certain out-of-network providers and group health plans because they violate the Administrative Procedures Act’s notice-and-comment requirement, a federal judge in Texas ruled Aug. 3, siding with the Texas Medical Association and other health care providers challenging the seven-fold fee increase and restrictions on batching related claims in a single payment dispute.
Urge Your Lawmakers Not to Enact Proposals That Would Reduce Access to Care
A series of recent developments in Congress are adding significant urgency to AHA’s fight against site-neutral payment and other policies that would irreparably damage hospitals’ abilities to care for their communities, including a move to use rate setting that would offer commercial insurers a financial windfall at the expense of providers.
Hospital Outpatient, Ambulatory Surgical Center Proposed Rule for CY 2024
The AHA is deeply concerned that CMS is proposing a CY 2024 outpatient hospital payment update of only 2.8% despite persistent financial headwinds facing the hospital field.
AHA Statement on Patient Rights Advocate Price Transparency Report
Once again, Patient Rights Advocate has put out a report that blatantly misconstrues, ignores, and mischaracterizes hospitals’ compliance with federal price transparency regulations. The AHA has repeatedly debunked point-by-point Patient Rights Advocate’s intentionally misleading “reports” on price transparency, including earlier this year in a blog and op-ed.
Health care price transparency bills advance in House
The House Education & Workforce Committee July 12 voted 39-0 to pass legislation (H.R. 4509) that would require off-campus hospital outpatient departments to obtain a separate unique health identifier and include it on all claims for services billed to commercial group health plans or their enrollees.