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Fact Sheet: Preserving and Building on Private Sector Health Care Coverage

Health care coverage is critical to ensuring patients’ access to care, which supports their own individual health, as well helps prevent the further spread of COVID-19. The economic stress of the public health emergency already has cost millions of jobs and is therefore expected to increase the number of individuals and families without coverage.
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Watch Replay of Feb. 23 AHA Advocacy Event

During a Feb. 23 AHA Advocacy Day briefing, AHA provided hospital and health system leaders with the latest intelligence from Capitol Hill and the information they need to make the case to lawmakers for additional COVID-19 relief.

Fact Sheet: More Funding Needed for the Provider Relief Fund

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in historic challenges for hospitals and health systems and the communities they serve. The surging number of cases and hospitalization rates have directly impacted the U.S. health care system and its ability to continue to provide access to care.

AHA case studies capture rural hospitals’ responses to the pandemic

A series of rural hospital and health system case studies containing lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic is now available on the American Hospital Association

Fact Sheet: COVID-19 Pandemic Results in Bankruptcies or Closures for Some Hospitals

As the COVID-19 pandemic has persisted and again surged across the country, infecting more than 10 million people and resulting in over a quarter million deaths, America’s hospitals and health systems continue to face historic challenges. Since the start of the pandemic, hospitals and health systems have faced unprecedented financial pressures resulting from: the astronomical costs of preparing for a surge of COVID-19 patients, months of essential hospital revenue being erased due to the combination of a forced shutdown and slowdown of regular operations for non-emergent care; and treating a growing number of uninsured patients.

More Support Needed to Help Hospitals and Health Systems Weather Third COVID-19 Wave

As the COVID-19 pandemic has persisted and again surged across the country, infecting more than 10 million people and resulting in nearly a quarter million deaths, America’s hospitals and health systems continue to face historic challenges. Since the start of the pandemic, hospitals and health systems have faced unprecedented financial pressures resulting from: the astronomical costs of preparing for a surge of COVID-19 patients, months of essential hospital revenue being erased due to the combination of a forced shutdown and slowdown of regular operations for non-emergent care; and treating a growing number of uninsured patients.
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AHA Virtual Advocacy Day: Urge Congress to Support Hospitals and Health Systems in the Next COVID-19 Relief Package

On July 20, we encourage you to get online to contact your senators and ask them to include a number of important provisions in the next COVID-19 relief package to support front-line health care personnel and providers — including hospitals, health systems, physicians and nurses.

CMS to permanently cover telehealth delivery of home health care

Coverage for telehealth services, which was approved on an emergency basis during the COVID-19 pandemic, will become standard for patients receiving home-based health

Nursing homes paid for curbing COVID-19 cases, deaths

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it will distribute approximately $333 million in an initial round of performance payments to 10,000

AHA urges CMS to withdraw data-collection penalties

The American Hospital Association (AHA) delivered comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services