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Fact Sheet: Ensuring Hospital Infrastructure Meets the Nation’s Needs Today and Into the Future
Over the past decade, groundbreaking technological advancements have paved the way for new, more effective ways to deliver care, yet many hospitals lack the physical capacity and skilled workforce to utilize these new tools. That is why it is imperative that Congress invest in America’s hospitals and health systems to ensure that the nation’s health care needs can be met today and into the future.
Fact Sheet: Hospital Costs Explained
The mission of each and every hospital in America is to serve the health care needs of the people in its community 24 hours a day, seven days a week. But, hospitals’ work is made more difficult by our fragmented health care system — a system that leaves millions of people unable to afford the health care services they need.
Ask your Members of Congress to Act in the ‘Lame-Duck Session’ to Eliminate Cuts to the Medicaid DSH Program
Please contact your senators and representatives and urge them to eliminate the $4 billion in Medicaid DSH cuts for the next fiscal year. More details follow on the FY 2021 DSH cuts and services that Medicaid DSH hospitals provide nationally.
Fact Sheet: Reset IMPACT Act to Account for COVID-19 Lessons on Post-acute Care
The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 was enacted, in part, to develop a unified payment model for the post-acute care (PAC) field, recognizing that payment needed to be modernized for the four PAC settings – home health (HH) agencies, skilled nursing facilities (SNF), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF), and long-term care hospitals (LTCH). However, the legislation could not account for the transformative changes implemented to the existing PAC payment systems following its passage.
Fact Sheet: Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of 2021
The House of Representatives March 9 adopted the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of 2021 (H.R. 842). A virtually identical bill is pending in the Senate (S. 420). If adopted by the Senate and signed by President Biden, the PRO Act would make sweeping changes to the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and other labor laws in the United States, including in ways that could have a significant adverse impact on hospitals and health systems as employers.
Setting the Record Straight on 340B: 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: Hospitals Face Continued Financial Challenges One Year into the COVID-19 Pandemic
This document outlines the financial impact of COVID-19 on hospitals and health systems.
ICD-10-CM Coding for Human Trafficking Fact Sheets
Guidelines Documenting ICD-10 Codes and Other Sensitive Information in Elec
Guidelines Documenting ICD-10 Codes and Other Sensitive Information in Electronic Health Record
In 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopted new ICD codes to describe human trafficking (HT). These specific HT codes allow healthcare professionals and others to
optimize continuity of care for trafficked persons, determine health needs and effective treatments for HT-related health conditions, track cases of HT to assist in ensuring adequate resources are provided to communities, and inform local and national prevention and intervention policies.
Fact Sheet: ICD-10-CM Coding for Human Trafficking
ICD-10-CM coding factsheet for human trafficking.