Guides/Reports
American Hospital Association guides and reports for members and the health care field.
Hospitals and health systems work hard every day to make care more cost-effective and efficient for their patients, at the same time that they are caring for the nation’s most complex and resource-intensive patients. This has been especially true during the COVID-19 pandemic as hospitals and health…
Learn about AHA cybersecurity resources and services to assist the health care field in mitigating the cyber and physical risks it faces.
America’s hospitals face significant, ongoing financial instability as the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to fester. Kaufman Hall projects hospitals nationwide will lose an estimated $54 billion in net income over the course of the year, even taking into account federal Coronavirus Aid,…
Simply put, strategic planning determines where an organization is going over the next year or more, how it's going to get there and how it'll know if it got there or not. The focus of a strategic plan is usually on the entire organization.
Tax-exempt hospitals are required to publicly report on the ways in which they improve the health of the communities they serve yearly through the IRS Form 990 Schedule H, which is publicly available. In 2018, the most recent year for which this information is available, tax-exempt hospitals…
Beginning in 2018, the AHA contracted with Guidestar to create a file of all Schedule H forms electronically submitted by hospitals to the IRS for the most recently completed tax year, 2018. Using the Guidestar database, as well as AHA annual survey data, the AHA can now provide benchmark reports…
Improving the health of their communities is at the heart of every hospital’s mission. For example, tax-exempt hospitals annually demonstrate accountability to the communities they serve by reporting to IRS on the benefits they provide to their community using the IRS Form 990 Schedule H and making…
This is the third analysis by Charles River Associates (CRA) showing that recent hospital acquisitions reduce costs and lead to improved performance on important quality indicators without an increase in revenue that may signal enhanced market power. All three analyses found that hospital…
Passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and, most recently, the repeal of the industry’s McCarran-Ferguson antitrust protection should be a catalyst for a more scrutiny by the federal antitrust and other federal agencies. And, as strongly suggested by the American Medical Association’s report that…
In this report we revisit our econometric analysis and include two additional years of data for 2018 and 2019 on cost, quality, and revenue outcomes from hospital transactions. The addition of these data allows us to measure the effects of 144 additional hospital acquisitions and also allows us to…