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AHA urges CMS to withdraw proposed 2020 HH payment adjustment
AHA supports the new home health payment model, required by law and to begin in calendar year 2020, but opposes the prospective behavioral adjustment proposed for next year, the association told the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today, noting the great difficulty in accurately projecting how providers will respond to major policy changes.
Making the Case for Hospitals to Invest in Housing
Improving the health of individuals—and their neighborhoods and communities as a whole—is one of the most complex and pressing challenges in health care today. Given the inextricable link between affordable, quality housing and good health, housing is one area that hospitals and health systems are starting to focus on more and more. A new initiative, Accelerating Investments for Healthy Communities, led by the Center for Community Investment, is helping hospitals refine their community investment strategies around affordable housing. The American Hospital Association and NORC at the University of Chicago are partnering to learn from the journeys of participating hospitals and sharing initial findings in this issue brief, Making the Case for Hospitals to Invest in Housing.
HHS announces first HIPAA settlement involving right of access provision
Bayfront Health St. Petersburg (Fla.) has paid $85,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights and adopted a corrective action plan to settle a potential violation of the right of access provision of the HIPAA Rules, the agency announced today.
CDC provides update on e-cigarette illnesses
Thirty-three states and the U.S. Virgin Islands have reported more than 450 possible cases of lung illness associated with using e-cigarette products, including five deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday.
Hospitals add 8,800 jobs in August
Employment at the nation's hospitals increased by 0.17% in August to a seasonally adjusted 5,253,200 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
AHA Comments on CMS’s CY 2020 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update
AHA comments on Medicare and Medicaid Programs; CY 2020 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update and CY 2019 Case-Mix Adjustment Methodology Refinements; Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model; Home Health Quality Reporting Requirements; Home Infusion Therapy Requirements; and Home Infusion Therapy Requirements.
Behavioral Health Community Collaborations
This list of publications, educational recordings, and case studies has been compiled to help you in your efforts to understand and foster behavioral health community collaborations.
Telehealth: A Path to Virtual Integrated Care
Telehealth is part of a larger digital transformation in health care. The electronic health record, omnipresent mobile devices and faster internet connections have provided new ways for patients and providers to interact. As a result, hospitals and health systems need a strategy for their own digital transformation.
Telehealth: A Path to Virtual Integrated Care (presentation)
This presentation highlights the AHA Center for Health Innovation’s Market Insights report on telehealth.
Fact Sheet: Network Matching
Some policymakers have expressed interest in “network matching” as a solution to surprise medical bills. To date, the only proposal defining such an approach, which was ultimately rejected, was included in the discussion draft of the Senate HELP Committee’s “Lower Health Care Costs Act.”