The AHA, ASHHRA and AONE believe that, in its current rulemaking, the Board has engaged in a process that is unwarranted, unprecedented and contrary to the administration‘s rulemaking goals by resubmitting, in essentially identical form, the Board‘s 2011 NPRM (See 76 Fed. Reg. 36,812).
Letters
Throughout the year, the AHA comments on a vast number of proposed and interim final rules put forth by the federal regulatory agencies. In addition, AHA communicates with federal legislators to convey the hospital field's position on potential legislative changes that would impact patients and patient care. Below are the most recent letters from the AHA to these bodies.
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The AHA supports the cautious exploration of a site-neutral payment policy that applies exclusively to patients who are clinically similar and can safely be treated in either setting.
We support CMS’s goal for Medicare providers and suppliers to have comprehensive emergency preparedness plans and generally think that CMS has chosen the correct framework for the proposed Conditions of Participation (CoPs) and Conditions for Coverage (CfCs).
The AHA supports the three-tier approach included in the proposed regulation for addressing noncompliance with the Section 501(r) requirements.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is pleased to support your legislation, the Two-Midnight Rule Coordination and Improvement Act of 2014 (S. 2082), to delay enforcement of the Medicare inpatient admission and review criteria (the two-midnight policy).
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is pleased to support the Critical Access Hospital Relief Act (S.2037). This legislation would remove the 96-hour physician certification requirement as a condition of payment for critical access hospitals (CAHs).
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is pleased to support the Critical Access Hospital Relief Act (S.2037). This legislation would remove the 96-hour physician certification requirement as a condition of payment for critical access hospitals (CAHs).
Rick Pollack urges President Obama to protect the health care promised to program beneficiaries in your fiscal year (FY) 2015 Federal Budget by not including further reductions in payments for hospital services provided to seniors and the disabled under Medicare.
The undersigned organizations write to express immediate concerns confronting our respective members’ ability to comply with the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program.