The Value Initiative
Hospitals are driving value in their communities. Affordable health care is one of the biggest concerns facing families, employers and government, and America’s hospitals are tackling the challenge head on. Through AHA’s The Value Initiative, we are leading the health care field on the issues of affordability and value.
As hospitals consider how and where they deliver care to patients, many are seeing the hospital-at-home model as a promising approach to improve value.
UCHealth – Aurora, Colo. Innovative
Tools Help Consumers Estimate Out-of-pocket Expenses
UCHealth is an innovator in providing individualized outof- pocket cost estimates that are specific to patients’ own insurance situations via its online patient portal, mobile app and through a dedicated call…
n 2017, Memorial Healthcare System (MHS) launched an online tool for prospective patients to determine their out-ofpocket costs in advance of scheduling a procedure.
Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) piloted a variety of tools to provide consumers with real-time out-of-pocket health care estimates at four of its hospitals in Northeastern Wisconsin.
AdventHealth – Altamonte Springs, Fla.
Rebranding Initiative Propelled AdventHealth to Provide Consumers More Price Transparency
The AHA’s Members in Action series highlights how hospitals and health systems are implementing new value-based strategies to improve health care affordability. This…
Patients have many questions when planning for their care. An important one is: How much is this going to cost me?
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Member Issue Brief: Implementing Patient Out-of-pocket Cost Estimators
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On-demand Webinar
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Succeeding with Value-based…
Joining us for part 4 of the podcast series is Priya Bathija, vice president of Strategic Initiatives at the AHA, in conversation with Dr. Michael Suk, Chief Physician Officer, Geisinger System Services, and Chair of Musculoskeletal Institute…
Joining us today for part 3 of the podcast series is Robyn Begley, CEO of American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL), and CNO at the AHA, in conversation with Agnes Barden, Vice President of the Office of Patient…