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AHA.ORG | PAGE 4 OF 162025 ADVOCACY AGENDA

� Extend the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits to ensure millions of Americans can continue to access health insurance and prevent hospitals from shouldering an even greater !nancial burden.

� Ensure essential health care services are available in all communities by safeguarding federal funding for Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the Health Insurance Marketplaces.

� Reject additional payment cuts that do not recognize legitimate differences among provider settings (so-called site-neutral or facility-fee payment policies).

� Protect the 340B Drug Pricing Program to ensure hospitals can maintain vital patient services and expand access to care.

� Ensure Medicaid is fully funded to allow hospitals to continue to serve the Medicaid, uninsured and marginalized populations in their communities, including through support of the current FMAP rates, the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital program, Upper Payment Limits and Directed Payments, and the !nancing sources that sustain them.

� Bolster support for hospitals and health systems so they can prepare for and respond to natural and man-made disruptions, including natural disasters, cyberattacks and supply chain failures.

� Hold commercial health insurers accountable for ensuring appropriate patient access to care, including reducing the excessive use of utilization management programs, ensuring adequate provider networks, reducing account receivables and limiting inappropriate denials for services.

� Bolster the health care workforce by enacting important protections against violence in health care settings, eliminating federal restrictions that limit the ability of providers to practice at the top of their license, and increasing funding for clinical training programs.

� Enact regulatory and administrative relief from burdensome policies that take caregivers away from providing patient care and increase costs for patients and the health care system.

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