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Fact Sheet: Improving Access to Care for Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries
Congressional action is needed to ensure greater oversight of MA plans as these rules are implemented and to enable CMS to enforce existing regulations designed to protect beneficiary access to medically necessary services.
Fact Sheet: 340B Drug Pricing Program: Fact vs Fiction
For nearly 30 years, the 340B Drug Pricing Program has provided financial help to safety-net hospitals to manage rising prescription drug costs. Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act requires pharmaceutical manufacturers participating in Medicaid to sell outpatient drugs at discounted prices to qualifying health care organizations that care for many uninsured and low-income patients.
Fact Sheet: Medicare Hospital Outpatient Site-Neutral Payment Policies
The AHA strongly opposes site-neutral payment cuts, which would reduce access to critical health care services, especially in rural and other underserved communities.
Fact Sheet: Hospitals & Health Systems and Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been widely used in the health care field for decades. Hospitals and health systems, for example, have developed or used AI tools to help increase the quality and efficiency
of care, including supporting clinicians in determining diagnoses, prognoses and specific treatment recommendations for patients.
Frequently Asked Questions Regarding ICD-10-CM Coding for COVID-19
Accurate coding is critical: AHA's ICD-10-CM FAQs address pneumonia icd10 & dizziness icd10 for precise COVID-19 documentation.
Environmental Pathogens Tip Sheet
This AHE tip sheet outlines various processes used to maintain a healthy and safe environment.
Ecolab Resource: Best Practices for Cleaning and Disinfecting
These resources, in partnership with Ecolab, demonstrate best practices and rules for cleaning and disinfecting in health care environmental services.
Environmental Services Technicians Play a Vital Role
Access talking points and information about the EVS health care profession and the vital role EVS technicians play.
Fact Sheet: Hospital Outpatient Department Billing Requirements
Congress is considering legislation that would change current billing practices for Medicare and the commercial insurance market to require each off-campus hospital outpatient department (HOPD) to be assigned a unique NPI as a condition of payment.
Hospital Price Transparency Rule Updates July 2024
Since going into effect, CMS has made several changes to the Hospital Price Transparency Rule requirements on hospitals. The most recent set of changes, including requiring hospitals to use a standard machine-readable file format, go into effect July 1, 2024.