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Financially stable | Not-for-profit hospitals stay afloat by containing costs

By Ashok Selvam | January 05, 2013 | Print Magazine

Profit margins at the nation's not-for-profit hospitals held steady in 2011 even as top-line revenue slowed sharply, according to data in the annual statistical guide released last week by the American Hospital Association.
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Fiscal deal gives Medicare more time to recover overpayments

By Joe Carlson | January 03, 2013 | Basic Web

A little-noticed provision in the fiscal-cliff package will give Medicare officials more time to take back an estimated $500 million in payments made to hospitals and physicians.
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No one's safe | Providers left wondering where cuts will hit

By Jessica Zigmond | December 08, 2012 | Print Magazine

As lawmakers search for ways to avert the fiscal cliff, providers find themselves in a labyrinth. Broad deficit-reduction proposals for more cuts to federal healthcare payments are coming from both sides of the aisle.
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Targeting provider taxes | Hospitals fear Medicaid-wary states

By Rich Daly | December 08, 2012 | Print Magazine

One option under consideration as a piece of solving the federal government's debt problem could undermine the Medicaid expansion that's supposed to cover millions more Americans beginning in 2014.
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Late News: Defending deductions | AHA among organizations against cap decrease

By Ashok Selvam | December 08, 2012 | Print Magazine

The American Hospital Association joined the chorus of not-for-profit organizations that want Congress to protect tax breaks given to those who make donations to not-for-profit organizations.
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Lawmakers urged to protect charity deductions

By Ashok Selvam | December 07, 2012 | Basic Web

Healthcare groups, including the American Hospital Association, want Congress to protect tax breaks given to those who make donations to not-for-profit organizations.
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Fearing the fiscal cliff | Hospitals detail approaches to slow looming cuts

By Rich Daly | December 01, 2012 | Print Magazine

Cook County Health and Hospitals System garnered some unusual attention recently in Washington. And it is the kind of notice hospitals are eager for as post-election fighting over federal spending ramps up.
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AHA warns on impact of rate cuts for hospital-based docs

By Rich Daly | November 29, 2012 | Basic Web

Congress is focused on using a reduction in Medicare evaluation and management payments for hospitals as a way to help pay for delaying a physician pay cut, say hospital officials and advocates.
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AHA chief doubts all states will expand Medicaid

By Rich Daly | November 29, 2012 | Basic Web

The head of the leading hospital advocacy group is pessimistic that states will undertake the voluntary Medicaid expansion called for by the 2010 healthcare overhaul.
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Pinched by the ACA | AHA looks to IRS for relief on tax-exempt debt

By Melanie Evans | November 24, 2012 | Print Magazine

Accountable care and bundled-payment deals made possible by the healthcare reform law could jeopardize not-for-profit hospitals' access to tax-exempt financing, the American Hospital Association said last week as it urged regulators to revamp rules.
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