WASHINGTON — The Coalition to Protect America’s Health Care will now be known as the Coalition to Strengthen America’s Healthcare. For the past 24 years, the Coalition has fought to protect access to high-quality care for all Americans. The new name reflects its renewed focus to protect and strengthen patients’ access to 24/7 care across […]
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With Congress facing critical funding deadlines, corporate insurance companies and other powerful special interests are pushing lawmakers to enact harmful Medicare cuts to hospital care that would threaten patients’ access to vital health services, especially for those in rural and other underserved communities. Here are the facts: Hospitals and health systems invest in Hospital Outpatient
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We’re not just protecting the status quo — we’re strengthening the future of high-quality, 24/7 patient care. Learn more about our renewed purpose from Coalition Chair Nancy Howell Agee. Let’s get to work!
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As February comes to a close, we want to highlight American Heart Month: a month that aims to educate people about cardiovascular disease prevention, risk factors, and healthy lifestyle choices. American Heart Month serves as an opportunity to emphasize the importance of heart health and encourage proactive measures you can take to reduce your risk
A new survey finds that Medicare patients covered by corporate insurance companies through Medicare Advantage (MA) are more likely than those in traditional Medicare to report delays in accessing care due to prior authorization. The findings provide the latest in a growing body of evidence showing that corporate insurance companies are delaying and denying patient care while
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In case you missed it, a new report from KFF Health News explains that after the “Biden administration announced new rules to streamline the [prior authorization] process for patients with certain health plans … states are considering prior authorization bills that go even further” to protect patients from the practice, which can contribute to problematic delays and denials
Storytelling is one of the most important tools we have in the fight to advance and strengthen America’s health care. With Congress focused on critical spending decisions, we must continue to ensure that our Members of Congress prioritize hospitals and the patients whose lives are impacted by potential cuts to care. Policymakers need to hear stories
As corporate insurance companies continue to bank record profits at the expense of patients, federal regulators are taking an important step to hold them accountable for using artificial intelligence (AI) to unfairly delay and deny patient care for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries. As STAT reports, “In recent months, the federal government has repeatedly told Medicare Advantage insurers that
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As powerful special interests continue to pressure lawmakers to enact harmful Medicare cuts to hospital care, their misleading rhetoric is drawing attention from experts who are setting the record straight, demonstrating how proposed Medicare cuts would put patients and the hospitals they count on at risk. InsideHealthPolicy reports: In a Feb. 7 memo titled “Anti-hospital Group
As corporate insurance companies continue to delay and deny necessary care, a proposed new quality measure for the Medicare Advantage (MA) star ratings system would bring needed transparency and oversight to corporate insurers’ delay and denial of care within MA plans. The Level 1 Upheld Denial Rate Measure would require corporate insurers to report the percentage of
