KHA's 2020 State Legislative Priorities Now Available
Nov
11
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Monday, November 11, 2019 3:51 PM
At KHA's Health Care Leadership Conference, the KHA membership approved the 2020 Legislative Priorities for the upcoming General Assembly Session.
This year's main priorities include:
- Fully funding disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments
- Maintaining Medicaid expansion
- Retaining certificate of need (CON)
- Reforming medical liability
- - Eliminating phantom damages
- - Enacting reasonable limits on attorney contingency fees and requiring transparency on those fees
Additionally KHA will:
- Support outlining specific standards for APRN collaborative agreements
- Oppose medical marijuana
- Support taxation of e-cigarettes
- Support legislation to require ambulatory facility data reporting
- Oppose legislation to reduce personal injury protection payments to the workers' compensation fee schedule that does not exempt hospitals
In addition to the traditional publication of the legislative priorities (link above), this year, KHA has created:
As well as Issue Papers for:
KHA looks forward to advocating on the behalf of all the hospitals in Kentucky during the 2020 legislative session. If you have any questions, please contact Nancy Galvagni at KHA (ngalvagni@kyha.com).