Guides/Reports
American Hospital Association guides and reports for members and the health care field.
Issue Brief: Physician Quality Payment Program
The AHA is focusing on several areas, including health equity and eliminating care disparities, violence and workplace safety, health system and community collaborations to advance health, and social determinants of health. AHA is working to build on this agenda through innovative campaigns and…
Legal Guidelines for Contacting Legislators - Perkins Coie LLP
This report outlines two distinct analyses of the questions relating to the benefits achieved through hospital combinations and the “merger-specificity”² of those benefits.
Suggestions on Framing the Benefits of Hospital Mergers
Monica Noether, Ph.D. and Sean May, Ph.D.
January 2017
Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities
AHA commissioned a study to investigate hospital experiences with implementation of meaningful use stage 1 electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs). The study describes the experience with and impact of eCQM implementation in four hospitals.
Executive Summary: Estimating the Impact of Repealing the Affordable Care Act on Hospitals
Executive summary of the report of the AHA Task Force on Ensuring Access to Care in Vulnerable Communities.