Making Healthcare More Affordable
The AHA Aug. 31 submitted comments urging the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Health Care Affordability and Mitigation Working Group to take a more comprehensive approach to evaluating healthcare affordability policies in a series of issue briefs being developed as a resource for…
AHA comments on NAIC Health Care Affordability Issue Briefs.
Hospital care for people with Parkinson’s disease costs nearly $8 billion annually and places about one in six hospitalized patients at significant risk for an avoidable complication due to healthcare systems that are not designed to meet their unique, time-sensitive needs.
A blog by Robyn Tessin, AHA director of policy, discusses the ways value-based care can meet patients’ needs, resulting in improved affordability and access to timely, coordinated care. “The promise of value-based care is a healthcare system that feels less like a collection of separate…
For patients, healthcare affordability is about more than the price of an individual service. It is also about whether the healthcare system meets their needs.
A blog by Shannon Wu, AHA director of payment policy, explains why having access to care close to home and the existence of rural hospitals are fundamental factors of healthcare affordability.
Healthcare affordability discussions often focus on premiums, deductibles and drug prices.
A new blog details how healthcare costs impact businesses of all sizes and how recommendations from a recent AHA report on affordability can help improve costs, access and quality. “Employers need affordability solutions that do more than shift costs from one part of the system to another,” writes…
In our previous blog, we examined what the AHA’s affordability recommendations could mean for patients. Now we turn to another critical stakeholder group: employers.
A blog by Molly Smith, AHA group vice president of public policy, highlights how the healthcare system can better help patients reduce their need for complex, costly care and lower their direct costs.