AHA Press Releases

As COVID-19 cases surge again, four major health care organizations release updated guidance on maintaining essential surgery during the ongoing pandemic.

Tom Nickels Executive Vice President American Hospital Association November 20, 2020

America’s hospitals and health systems have very deep concerns about the substance and legality of today’s Most Favored Nation Model interim final rule. Instead of holding drug companies accountable for drug prices, it slashes reimbursement to hospitals for drugs.

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Statement on the 2020 Election. This remarkable year has tested our nation, our economy, our health care system — and most recently — our sacred democratic form of government. Now, after Americans spoke out by ballot in record numbers, the media has reported that the election has been called for Joe Biden.

The American Hospital Association is proud to partner with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reach and engage all health care personnel with vital online COVID-19 curriculum.

The American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association, the American Health Care Association and the National Association for Home Care and Hospice wrote congressional leaders urging them to extend the congressionally enacted moratorium on the application of the Medicare sequester cuts into 2021 and through the duration of the public health emergency.

The AHA Board of Trustees earlier this year recommended updating the AHA’s patient billing guidance to better align with how care is delivered and financed currently. Today, we are releasing updated, voluntary guidelines that represent the AHA’s expectations of what the hospital and health system field can and should do to address issues of coverage, billing and debt collection, and patient and provider accountability.

AHA elected Phyllis Cowling to fill a vacancy on its Board of Trustees for one year, effective Jan. 1, 2021.

AHA statement on interpretive guidance on CMS data collection and Medicare conditions of participation interim final rule from President and CEO Rick Pollack.

Joint AHA, AAMC Statement on NASEM Report on Equitable Allocation of a COVID-19 Vaccine.

AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack shares a statement on passage of Continuing Resolution.

Statement from the AHA, AMA, ANA as coronavirus deaths in U.S. tops 200,000.

It is unfortunate that RAND continues to make broad claims about pricing based on a cherry-picked and limited data set.

AHA statement on CMS announcement on Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Rule from Executive Vice President Tom Nickels.

Improving the health of their communities is at the heart of every hospital’s mission. As one example, in a new analysis released, the American Hospital Association (AHA) found that 340B tax-exempt hospitals provided more than $64.3 billion in total benefits to their communities in 2017 alone, the most recent year for which comprehensive data is available.

Statement on the FY 2021 final IPPS rule from AHA Senior Vice President for Public Policy Analysis and Development Ashley Thompson.

AHA recognizes Cone Health with 2020 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award.

Statement over the CMS interim final rule on data collection and Medicare conditions of participation (CoPs) from AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack .

For more than 25 years, the 340B program has enabled hospitals that care for many low-income and uninsured patients to purchase certain outpatient drugs from drug companies at discounted prices