Cost Management
AHA comments in response to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce efforts to build upon and strengthen the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
The AHA shares comments on the topic of national health expenditures before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health .
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While Medicare has historically reimbursed hospitals below the cost of providing care to patients, new data shows that Medicare payment levels hit record lows in 2022.
In separate calls Jan. 4 with subscribers, Fitch Ratings and S&P Global Ratings both maintained a gloomy outlook for the not-for-profit hospital sector in 2024.
A new white paper from the AHA details how integrating physical and behavioral health services can reduce the total cost of care, improve outcomes and improve workforce satisfaction.
Mergers and acquisitions are a vital tool to keep financially struggling hospitals open and allow hospitals and health systems to reduce costs, improve quality and better serve patients where they live, AHA told the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee May 17 in a statement submitted for a…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit temporarily restored an Affordable Care Act requirement that most health plans cover certain preventive services without cost sharing.
Two experts discuss the AHA’s recently released 2023 Costs of Caring Report, which documents the skyrocketing growth in expenses, especially the cost of labor.
America’s hospitals' and health systems' are facing a tidal wave of financial challenges, with finances stretched to their breaking point by three years of pandemic and now post-pandemic strain.