AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

Medicare/Medicaid

S. 2761 / H.R. 5269, the Reforming and Enhancing Sustainable Updates to Laboratory Testing Services (RESULTS) Act , all provisions; H.R. 5142, The Home Health Stabilization Act, all provisions; H.R. 4313 / S. 2237, Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act of 2025, all provisions; S. 1261 / H.R. 4206, CONNECT for Health Act of 2025, all provisions; H.R. 1805, Assistance for Rural Community Hospitals (ARCH) Act, all provisions; H.R. 2191, Physician Led and Rural Access to Quality Care Act, all provisions; S. 335, Rural Hospital Support Act, all provisions; S.1816 / H.R.3514 , Improving Seniors Timely Access to Care Act, all provisions; S. 502 / H.R. 6240 , Rural Hospital Closure Relief Act, all provisions; S. 2439 / H.R. 4731, Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025, all provisions; H.R. 4002, Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act, all provisions; DRAFT, Blood Pressure MATTERS Act, all provisions; H.R. 5454/S. 2879, the Medicare Advantage Prompt Pay Act, all provisions; DRAFT, Rural Teaching Hospital Relief, all provisions; S. 2793, Ensuring Access to Essential Providers, all provisions; H.R. 10136, Promoting Fairness for Medicare Providers Act, all provisions; H.R. 7409, Defend Rural Health Act, all provisions; H.R. 7830, Women Expansion of Learning and Labor Safety (WELLS) Act, all provisions; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Issues pertaining completing the CMS Outpatient Prospective Payment System Drug Acquisition Cost Survey; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Issues pertaining to written guidance on acceptable signage and other materials that hospitals can use in their emergency departments to discourage violent behavior; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Issue pertaining to the proposed rule on the Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Comments pertaining to proposed rule on the Global Benchmark for Efficient Drug Pricing model; The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Issues related to proposed payment updates and Medicare Advantage program; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Medicare Program Contract Year 2027 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage Program, Issue pertaining to proposed rule for policy and technical changes to the Medicare Advantage and Part D programs in contract year 2027; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Issue pertaining to the upcoming rulemaking implementing requirements related to hospital off-campus provider-based departments; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Issue pertaining to the Comprehensive Regulations To Uncover Suspicious Healthcare (CRUSH), which includes efforts to combat fraud waste and abuse in federal health care programs; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Issue pertaining to the proposed rulemaking on potential options to foster a more resilient supply chain for American-made personal protective equipment and essential medicines; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Issue pertaining to expanding the use of Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoP); Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Issues pertaining to the proposed Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2027; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Issues pertaining to implementation of unique national provider (NPI) for hospital off-campus provider-based departments as outlined in Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026; Medicaid Program, Issues pertaining to Medicaid program and how states finance programs, reimburse providers, and determine beneficiary eligibility, and implementation of H.R. 1 provisions related to state directed payments and provider taxes; Site Neutral Payments, Issues related to site neutral payment cuts; Rural Hospitals, Issues pertaining to the sustainability of MDHS, CAHs, SCHs, REH's, implementation of Rural Health Transformation Program, rural reclassification policy; Physician Payments, Issues pertaining to alternative payment models, mental health of workforce, physician reimbursement cuts, Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization (MACRA) Reforms; Health Plan Accountability, Issues specific to prior authorization, patient access to care, adequate provider networks, inappropriate denials, reducing account receivables, prompt pay and cost-based reimbursement for critical access hospitals under Medicare Advantage, Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction (WISeR) model, transparency in plan denial signatures, inappropriate downcoding; Provider Reimbursements, Issues related to provider reimbursement, site neutral payment cuts, Medicare/Medicaid program funding, facility fees, DSH cuts, oversight; Expiring Health Care Provisions, Issues pertaining to Telehealth, Hospital at Home, MDH/LVA, Medicaid DSH Program; Post Acute Care, Issues pertaining to expanding and protecting patients access to services provided by long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, skilled nursing facilities, and home health agencies; Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Project, Issues related to ending the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Project.