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Emerging Strategies to Ensure Access to Health Care Services Urgent Care Center
A new AHA report that finds non-clinical regulatory requirements cost providers nearly $39 billion a year and divert clinicians from patient care.
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Statement on Tax Proposal
Contact: Marie Johnson, 202-626-2351, mjohnson@aha.org
Colin Milligan, 202-638-5491, cmilligan@aha.org
Tom Nickels
Executive Vice President
American Hospital Association
November 2, 2017
Press Release
Statement on MACRA Physician Quality Payment Program Final Rule for CY 2018
Contact: Colin Milligan, 202-638-5491, cmilligan@aha.org
Marie Johnson, 202-626-2351, mjohnson@aha.org
Tom Nickels
Executive Vice President
American Hospital Association
November 2, 2017
Press Release
Statement on Final CY 2018 Physician Fee Schedule Rule
Contact: Colin Milligan, 202-638-5491, cmilligan@aha.org
Marie Johnson, 202-626-2351, mjohnson@aha.org
Tom Nickels
Executive Vice President
American Hospital Association
November 2, 2017
Fact: Drug spending is significant and growing each year. Drug manufacturers like to point to retail drug spending, which is around 10 percent of total health care spending,i while ignoring total drug spending, which was 16.7 percent (or $457 billion) in 2015
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Statement on Final CY 2018 OPPS Rule
Contact: Colin Milligan, 202-638-5491, cmilligan@aha.org
Marie Johnson, 202-626-2351, mjohnson@aha.org
Tom Nickels
Executive Vice President
American Hospital Association
November 1, 2017
This AHA webinar engaged participants in a discussion related to global budgets – one of the nine strategies recommended by AHA's Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities in its report. Global budgets have the potential to provide financial certainty and flexibly for health care…