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Ways and Means Committee approves tax bill

The House Ways and Means Committee today voted 24 to 16 along party lines to approve the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act (H.R. 1), legislation to reform the tax code. Among other changes, the bill would eliminate hospitals’ ability to access low-cost capital financing through tax-exempt private-activity bonds.

AHA, others urge Congress to preserve tax-exempt status of municipal bonds

AHA today urged leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee to reject a proposal in the House Republicans’ tax reform package that would eliminate tax exemption for 501(c)(3) hospital bonds and advance refunding bonds.

AHA recommends certain changes to inpatient PPS rule, including DSH provisions

The AHA supports a number of provisions in the inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year 2018, but has concerns about certain proposed changes related to disproportionate share hospital payments, the documentation and coding reduction, and quality programs, AHA Executive Vice President Tom Nickels told the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in comments submitted today.

The Next Generation of Community Health

Hospitals and health systems are on a journey that promises to take them to a place where they can improve the lives of thousands of people all at once, not just the health of one patient at a time … where their success in addressing the social determinants of health within the communities they serve will be as important as the high-quality medical care they provide within their four walls. It’s a journey described in the AHA Committee on Research’s new report, “The Next Generation of Community Health.”
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Letter to the Editor Responds to Misleading New York Times Op-Ed

Hospitals of all types provide unparalleled benefits to their communities. Yet, the author of a recent op-ed (Why Are Nonprofit Hospitals Focused More on Dollars Than Patients?) ignores these benefits in an unconvincing effort to claim hospitals are not living up to their mission.

AHA responds to misleading NY Times op-ed

In an unconvincing effort to claim hospitals are not living up to their mission, the author of a recent op-ed in the New York Times ignores the unparalleled benefits hospitals of all types provide to their communities, writes AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack.

Letter to the editor: Article on hospital charity care misleads

A recent Modern Healthcare article suggests that hospitals’ charity care as a share of expenses declined between 2020 and 2023, but the authors’ own data tell a different story, write AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and Catholic Health Association President and CEO Sr. Mary Haddad.

AHA blog: Article misleads on hospitals’ charity care spending  

“A recent Modern Healthcare article misleadingly suggests that hospitals and health systems provided less charity care between 2020 and 2023,” writes AHA General Counsel and Secretary Mindy Hatton.

Article Misleads on Hospitals’ Charity Care Spending

A recent Modern Healthcare article misleadingly suggests that hospitals and health systems provided less charity care between 2020 and 2023. In reality, hospitals’ overall charity care increased over the last three years.

Chair File: The Incredible Impact of Hospitals in Our Communities

People visit hospitals to receive care for injuries or diseases or undergo needed medical procedures and surgeries.