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Blogs from AHA leaders and members on the latest health care issues.
Antibiotics are one of the great discoveries in medicine and the most important weapon in fighting bacterial diseases. Infections that were once deadly can now be cured, and antibiotics have made many life-saving treatments possible. However, when it comes to antibiotics, more is not always better.
A new coalition of consumer advocates, employers and others today announced their opposition to the proposed health insurance deals between Aetna/Humana and Anthem/Cigna. The Coalition to Protect Patient Choice echoes what the AHA has been saying: That the consolidation of these companies will…
Antibiotic resistance – when bacteria stop responding to the drugs designed to kill them – may be the single most important infectious disease threat of our time. We risk turning back the clock to a world where simple infections can kill people as they did a century ago. Already more than 2 million…
America’s hospitals honor the service of our nation’s veterans and work to provide high-quality care for those who have served in the armed forces. Working closely with our partners in the Veterans Administration (VA) health system, hospitals strive to address any unique needs veterans may have…
There is a little-known – but critical – law that helps ensure hospitals are able to care for their communities. It is a ban on physician self-referral to hospitals in which they have an ownership interest. A permanent ban was put into effect in 2010 and eliminating it would raise the federal…
Saving an estimated 50,000 lives and $12 billion in health care costs is something to celebrate. Congratulations to the 3,700 acute-care hospitals that have participated in one of the Hospital Engagement Networks (HENs) that are part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Partnership…
The AHA is proud to support National Apprenticeship Week, November 2-6, sponsored by the Department of Labor (DOL).
Open enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplace has begun and hospitals are geared up to continue the important work of making the enrollment process easy, accessible and widely available. Now through the end of open enrollment on January 31, 2016, hospitals will host health fairs and…
A July 6 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report examining Medicare Part B spending at hospitals participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program draws unsubstantiated conclusions about a program that has a proven track record of improving access to care for poor patients and vulnerable…
A report paid for by a group backed by the pharmaceutical industry is the latest in a series of attempts to misrepresent a program that has a proven track record of helping poor patients and vulnerable communities.