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.
By expanding communication with patients and families throughout the continuum of care, Children’s Wisconsin sees a higher engagement of family caregivers in their children’s health, leading to fewer visits to the ED and a decrease in avoidable readmissions.
AHA’s The Value Initiative is providing new resources to support hospitals’ and health systems’ efforts to adopt hospital-at-home care for patients who need acute-level care but are considered stable enough to be safely monitored from their homes.
This podcast focuses on new resources the AHA created to help hospitals and health systems in offering out-of-pocket cost estimates to patients in advance of receiving medical care.
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