Texas Hospital Association

Healthcare reform proposals from Senators Bill Cassidy and Lindsey Graham, provisions resulting in loss of insurance overage, payment cuts to hospital providers, and fixed federal funding in Medicaid.

Department of Labor: Proposed Rules; Definition of Employer under Section 3(5) of ERISA - Association Health Plans; expressing concern that the proposed rule will permit an increase in the number of plans which could qualify as large group or self-funded employer plans negatively impacting access to care.

US Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Civil Rights: Proposed Rules - Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights in Health Care; Delegations of Authority, expressing concern the proposed rule could lead to an inability to provide or receive care when necessary, and unintentionally reduce the availability of services to certain populations.

Issues related to the pending expiration and current disallowance of funds under the 1115 Medicaid Transformation Waiver in Texas.

HR 1892, Continuing Resolution for FY 2017 appropriations: delaying cuts to Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital payments; extending funding for the Childrens Health Insurance Program; extending funding for rural hospital programs.

Rural Hospital Access Act of 2017 (S.872/H.R. 1955), permanently extending the Medicare Dependent Hospital program and Medicare Low Volume Hospital program.

Responding to Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee draft proposals to address expiring Medicare programs for rural hospitals.

2018 Medicare Outpatient Proposed Rule, provisions leading to payment cuts under the 340B program.

Issues related to the 1115 Medicaid Transformation Waiver in Texas.

Response to CMS on proposed rule to amend definition of short-term, limited duration insurance. CMS-9924-P.

Response to CMS proposed rule on methods for assuring access to covered Medicaid services - exemptions for state with high managed care penetration rates and rate reduction threshold. CMS-2406-P

Response to CMS proposed rule on Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals

and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Proposed Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2019

Rates; Proposed Quality Reporting Requirements for Specific Providers. CMS-1694-P.

Shared white paper on opioids created by the Texas Hospital Association to inform the policy debate in Congress.

Issues related to the 1115 Medicaid Transformation Waiver in Texas.

Response to CMS on proposed rule to amend definition of short-term, limited duration insurance. CMS-9924-P.

Response to CMS proposed rule on methods for assuring access to covered Medicaid services - exemptions for state with high managed care penetration rates and rate reduction threshold. CMS-2406-P

Response to CMS proposed rule on Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals

and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Proposed Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2019

Rates; Proposed Quality Reporting Requirements for Specific Providers. CMS-1694-P.

Response to CMS on proposed rule related to Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for FFY 2019, provision implementing a new budget natural case mix system for rehabilitation hospitals. CMS-1688-P.

Shared white paper on opioids created by the Texas Hospital Association to inform the policy debate in Congress.

Respond to HHS proposed rule on protecting statutory conscience rights in health care. Conscience NPRM, RIN 0945-ZA03.

HR 3415 (Poe), the Megan Rondini Act, legislation that requires hospitals to follow certain protocols in the treatment of sexual assault victims.

HR 6273 (Walters/Walden), legislation that requires 340B participating hospitals to follow certain protocols in the treatment of sexual assault victims.

Draft legislation (Barton) that would amend the Public Health Service Act to raise the minimum disproportionate share adjustment percentage required of certain hospitals as a condition of qualifying for the 340B drug discount program, and for other purposes.

Issues related to the 1115 Medicaid Transformation Waiver in Texas and disallowance of funds.

Response to request for comments by CMS on the physician self-referral law (CMS-1720-NC).

Proposed reductions to hospital payments in the CY 2019 Outpatient Prospective Payment System rule.