Comments & Letters

Joint Comments to CMS Regarding Skilled Nursing Facility PPS FY 2020

Joint Comments to CMS Regarding Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update FY 2020

ABC Submits Comments on Bacterial Risk Control Strategies for Blood Collection Establishments and Transfusion Services to Enhance the Safety and Availability of Platelets for Transfusion Draft Guidance

ABC, AABB, and the American Red Cross Joint Letter Requesting that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Create “miscellaneous/not otherwise classified” HCPCS II Code for Blood Products as Part of the HCPCS 2020 Annual Update

AABB, America’s Blood Centers, the American Red Cross Encourage Congress to Pass PAHPAI

December 2018 Medical Device Tax Repeal Coalition Letter

AABB, ABC, ARC Provide Feedback on ASPR National Health Security Framework

Joint Statement Regarding Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs; Proposed Rule (CMS-1695-P)

A Joint Perspective on Tolerable Risk in Blood Safety

Joint Statement to the Food and Drug Administration’s Blood Product Advisory Committee – Strategies to Control the Risk of Bacterial Contamination in Platelets for Transfusion

Joint Response to CMS-1694-P: Medicare Program; 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

Joint Response to Senate HELP Draft PAHPA Discussion

Statement of America’s Blood Centers Hearing on “Preparedness, Response, and Rebuilding: Lessons from the 2017 Disasters” U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee March 14, 2018

Joint Comments on Request for Removal of Hydroxyethyl Starch from the U.S. Market