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Special Bulletin: White House Releases Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency
The White House June 24 released an executive order on “improving price and quality transparency in American health care.” The executive order focuses on five policies:
Achieving Success in Bundled Payment Programs: Identifying and Engaging in Partnerships to Improve Care
Identifying and engaging in the most effective clinical partnerships for improving care through bundled payment models redesign are crucial to success in driving better outcomes.
Whoever Controls the Remote May Win with Telehealth
Telemedicine may get a new platform from what to many is an old friend — the television — to connect with elderly patients and those with chronic diseases. CNBC recently reported that Cisco is early in the development of a device that sits atop TVs and integrates with telemedicine provider American Well’s technology.
Urge Your Senators to Protect Patients from Surprise Bills, Reject Rate Setting
New resources available to assist with your advocacy efforts
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee leaders today released a
Urge Your Senators to Protect Patients from Surprise Bills, Reject Rate Setting
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee leaders today released a
Leadership Circle events build a community for physician leaders to renew, collaborate
In this AHA Stat Blog, Jay Bhatt, D.O., senior vice president and chief medical officer of the AHA, and Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president of the AHA Physician Alliance, share ideas and resources from the first Leadership Circle session, which covered AI and burnout in the health care industry.
Lack of Data Sharing with Digital Health Impedes Innovation
Health care organizations are making greater use of digital systems like electronic health records, telehealth and artificial intelligence, but most don’t regularly share data outside their organizations, creating barriers to high-quality care and impeding innovation. That’s one key takeaway from Royal Philips’ recently released Future Health Index 2019 report exploring both the progress and shortcomings of digital health.
President issues executive order on price transparency
President Trump today issued an executive order aimed at improving health care price transparency and reducing costs. Most notably, the order instructs the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a proposed regulation within 60 days requiring hospitals to “publicly post standard charge information, including charges and information based on negotiated rates and for common or shoppable items and services, in an easy-to-understand, consumer-friendly, and machine-readable format.”
Senate HELP leaders release revised health cost legislation
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee leaders today released a manager’s amendment to the Lower Health Care Costs Act of 2019 (S.1895) – bipartisan legislation focused on reducing health care costs – making several updates to the bill.