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RAND 5.0 – The Health Policy Equivalent of Groundhog Day

The RAND Corporation recently released the fifth iteration of its biannual hospital price report. The AHA highlights the significant flaws in this latest iteration.
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Hospitals Are Clear: COVID-19 Waivers Make a Difference

One important learning from the two-and-a-half-year COVID-19 pandemic is that the public health emergency (PHE) waivers made an enormous difference for hospitals and health systems.
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Article on Provider Relief Funds Misses Mark

All of America’s hospitals and health systems, regardless of size, location and ownership type have provided essential care to their patients and communities during this historic COVID-19 pandemic, all while facing tremendous financial challenges and pressures.
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AHA report: Hospitals battle cost surge along with COVID-19 and Medicare payment cuts

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals have experienced surging costs for labor, drugs, supplies, equipment and other resources required to care for patients, according to a
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FEMA funding increase for eligible COVID-19 costs extended

President Biden yesterday extended through July
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Hospital groups ask Congress for additional help as pandemic continues

The AHA and seven other national hospital organizations today urged congressional leaders to act quickly to ensure hospitals and health systems have the additional resources they need to continue t
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Perspective: Progress on Stopping Cuts to Hospitals … Still More Work to Do

This week Congress passed legislation to stop a number of harmfu
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AHA urges HHS to extend hospitals’ deadline to spend PRF payments

AHA today asked Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to allow providers that received funding prior to June 30, 2020 to use their COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund payments through the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency or, at a minimum, through the end of 2021.
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HHS: $4.8B from ARPA to help reimburse providers testing uninsured for COVID-19

The Health Resources and Services Administration will use $4.8 billion from the American Rescue Plan Act to reimburse health care providers for testing uninsured individuals for COVID-19 through its COVID-19 Uninsured Program, the Department of Health and Human Services announced today.