Letter/Comment

The latest advocacy letters and comments from the American Hospital Association.

AHA comments to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information on its draft Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement as well as ONC’s draft U.S. Core Data for Interoperability document.
The American Hospital Association's comments to the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations for its hearing on "Examining the Impact of Health Care Consolidation."
The American Hospital Association commends Rep. Hultgren for introducing legislation to restore the tax exemption for advance refunding bonds that was repealed in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
The AHA requests additional information and a delay in implementation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model (BPCI Advanced) announced on Jan. 9.
AHA comments to provide feedback on the work that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) are undertaking to develop a unified post-acute care prospective payment system (PAC PPS). AHA's post-acute care membership…
Letter to Congressional leaders from organizations to voice strong support for the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples (CREATES) Act (S. 974/H.R. 2212) and encourage Congress to pass this important, bipartisan legislation as soon as possible.
March 28, 2016 Andrew M. Slavitt Acting Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hubert H. Humphrey Building 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Room 445-G Washington, DC 20201 RE: CMS-1644-P, Medicare Program; Medicare Shared Savings Program; Accountable Care Organizations – Revised…