Early evidence suggests that the advance premium tax credit likely contributed to an expansion of health insurance coverage in 2014 because it significantly reduced the cost of exchange plans' prem
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About 11.2 million people enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program between Oct. 1, 2013 and Jan.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released the proposed Stage 3 rule
The House and Senate budget committees yesterday voted along party lines to approve their respective versions of a fiscal year 2016 budget plan.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will review the 2016 ap
Physician practices are engaging in new health care payment models intended to improve quality and reduce costs, but need help managing increasing amounts of data and responding to the diversity of
Rep. Michael Burgess, M.D., (R-TX) today introduced legislation (H.R.
The House Budget Committee today voted 22-13 along party lines to pass a fiscal year 2016 budge
More than 150 hospital leaders today gathered on Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to reject cuts to payments for hospital care that would limit patients’ access to care.
At an AHA-sponsored briefing today on Capitol Hill, hospital leaders called for changes in Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program.
In an advertorial today in the Wall Street Journal, AHA President and CEO Rich Umbdenstock calls for “real refor
The House today voted 232-186 to approve a joint resolution (S.J. Res.
The Affordable Care Act has energized five fundamental shifts in health care over the past five years, according to a new report by the PwC
A new AHA TrendWatch report calls for refinements in Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) that achieve the goal of
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) today unveiled the committee’s
The AHA and four other national hospital organizations this week expressed “profound disappointment” with a two-day workshop on health care competition convened last month by the Federa