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n an effort to ensure correct payment for services furnished in off-campus provider-based departments of hospitals, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services soon will be enacting changes for outpatient prospective payment system providers that have multiple locations.
Integrating behavioral health care into primary care is improves care and decreases costs, but restricted access to behavioral health providers makes integration seem daunting. Atrium Health has tackled this issue and developed a truly integrated and financially sustainable model.
Explore behavioral health services integration in the United States at the state level. Drill down further to see detailed behavioral health services integration by hospital type, bed size and much more!
Many health systems are looking at ways to reduce fragmentation between behavioral health and other physical care services and adopting behavioral health integration as the solution. As leadership teams pinpoint where they are on their journey to behavioral health integration, they need to answer…
Update on Key Issues in the Behavioral Health Care Field:
June 2019
Newsletter highlighting AHA resources, advocacy updates, and more regarding behavioral health.
Between 7 April and 7 May 2019, three US cities were victims of RobbinHood Ransomware attacks. These attacks represent the first observed instances of RobbinHood Ransomware in the United States. RobbinHood encrypts the files on the victim’s network using RSA-4096, an asymmetric…
Newsletter highlighting AHA resources, advocacy updates, and more regarding behavioral health.
May 2019 Behavioral Health Update
Over the past year, there has been considerable public and policymaker focus on the issues of surprise medical billing and health care price transparency. The AHA supports protecting patients from surprise medical bills and improving patient access to meaningful pricing information. The following…
In this members-only white paper by the AHA Center for Health Innovation, John Riggi, senior adviser for cybersecurity and risk at the AHA, and Edward You, supervisory special agent for weapons of mass destruction at the FBI, outline growing concern among the FBI, Congress and some health care…
Leaders of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) May 23 released the Lower Health Care Costs Act of 2019 – bipartisan discussion draft legislation focused on reducing health care costs.