Policy Resources

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AHA POLICY BRIEFS

• Prompt Payment Of Providers
  
  
• Implications of President Clinton's Plan to Modernize the Traditional Fee-for-Service Medicare Program
  
  
• President Clinton's Plan to Reform Medicare
  
  
• Managed Care/Consumer Protection Legislation

OTHER RESOURCES

• Declaration Regarding the Administration of Smallpox Countermeasures, January 24, 2003

• Special Hospital Survey: Practices Associated with "Opened-But-Unused" Single Use Devices, October 28, 2002 

Medicare Resources

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Questions & Answers for the CMS Hospital Patients' Rights

• These Q&A address many areas that have not been previously addressed and supercede any areas where they differ from previous Q&A or Interpretive Guidelines. 10/12/01

BIPA Impact Worksheet - AHA Members Only

• Use this downloadable Excel worksheet to estimate the impact of the Medicare Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 on Hospitals and Health Systems
  

* The Lewin Group provides objective analysis to support AHA policy development. As a research and consulting organization, it does not advocate for or endorse positions on specific policy issues.