Making Healthcare More Affordable
We’ll review the ways in which hospitals can participate in Medicare alternative payment models and offer thoughts on what we expect the APM landscape to look like in the future.
We’ll review the ways in which hospitals can participate in Medicare alternative payment models and offer thoughts on what we expect the APM landscape to look like in the future.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today held the fifth in a series of hearings on reducing health care costs, which focused on improving affordability through innovation.
Value does not happen by accident, and good intentions are not enough. Hear how University of Utah Health has developed a culture where value is a major focus for everyone in the organization.
This session kicks off our series. You’ll learn the role hospitals and health systems can play in improving affordability and promoting value. We’ll also look at the work of AHA’s effort, The Value Initiative.
Value does not happen by accident, and good intentions are not enough. Hear how University of Utah Health has developed a culture where value is a major focus for everyone in the organization. We’ll also share survey data that challenges how we think about value (hint: it’s more than money).…
This session kicks off The Value Initiative's Virtual Workshop series. Learn the role hospitals and health systems can play in improving affordability and promoting value. Also view the work of AHA’s effort, The Value Initiative.
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A recent New York Times article on hospital consolidation “doesn’t paint a full picture of the root cause of higher health care costs to consumers,” AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack states in a letter to the editor.
Voters in Palo Alto and Livermore, Calif., Tuesday rejected union-backed municipal ballot measures that would have imposed an “acceptable payment amount” on the compensation hospitals and other medical providers can receive from insurers and certain other payers for the care provided to patients.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Treasury Department October 22, issued updated guidance for states seeking a Section 1332 waiver of certain Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirements.