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Keeping Health Care Affordable
Rising health costs top the concerns of Americans and dominate the news. Spending on health care consumes a large chunk of the nation’s resources and is expected to increase.
A recent government report predicts that spending on health care will reach 20 percent of the GDP by 2016. Policymakers are questioning why that is, does that provide better quality of care and what can be done to help reign in spending on health services.
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As the hub of health care in a community, hospitals play a critical role in keeping costs down. Hospitals are working to focus on wellness, better manage chronic disease, speed adoption of information technology, improve how care is delivered to each patient, increase transparency of hospital quality and better understand and reduce variation in care. Read More:
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AHA News
- Apr 20, 2012 | Report: Growth in enrollment, not costs, driving Medicare/Medicaid spending
- Apr 18, 2012 | Forum examines drivers of health care costs
- Apr 10, 2012 | Study: Survival gains exceed additional costs of U.S. cancer care
- Apr 09, 2012 | Report: Promoting primary care can lower overall Medicare costs
- Mar 29, 2012 | HPOE report proposes strategic approach to managing costs
- Nov 17, 2011 | Report looks at past trends in employer-based insurance costs
- Nov 16, 2011 | Employers report slower growth in health benefit costs
- Sep 20, 2011 | Institute to report on trends in health care costs, use
- Sep 08, 2011 | Study: Hand hygiene, other practices improve mortality, reduce costs in pediatric ICU
- Jul 25, 2011 | AHRQ: Heart disease, cancer most costly adult medical conditions
Publications
- May 15, 2012 | Celebrating Innovation in Palliative Care
- May 15, 2012 | Leadership Academy gives doctors skills for a new era
- May 15, 2012 | Who's in the Driver's Seat?
- May 15, 2012 | Strategically Managing Health Care Costs
- May 15, 2012 | Hospital Engagement Networks: 10 Big Goals in 2 Short Years
- May 15, 2012 | Transforming Care Delivery
- May 15, 2012 | It's time to step it up
- May 15, 2012 | Seeing Device Costs Clearly
- May 15, 2012 | Focus on the C-Suite: Frontliner-in-chief
- May 15, 2012 | The Mental Health Crisis
Recent Efforts
- May 08, 2012 | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Notice of Public Hearing on Taxable Medical Devices
- Feb 16, 2012 | AHA Comments to CMS Re: Medicaid; Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments-Uninsured Definition
- Dec 13, 2011 | New Ad Campaign Urges Congress to Protect Patients and Oppose Additional Cuts to Hospital Care
- Oct 31, 2011 | AHA Comments to CMS Re: ACA: Establishment of Exchanges and Qualified Health Plans
- Oct 31, 2011 | AHA Comments Re: Medicaid Program Rules Implementing Eligibility and Subsidy Provisions of the ACA
- Sep 01, 2011 | AHA to CMS Re: CMS Administrative Simplification
- May 11, 2011 | AHA to Rep. Fred Upton Re: Support for the HEALTH Act (H.R. 5)
- Apr 19, 2011 | Legislators Back Home for Two-Week Spring Recess
- Apr 19, 2011 | Legislators Back Home for Two-Week Spring Recess
- Apr 13, 2011 | Hospital Associations Letter to Berwick Challenging Documentation and Coding Adjustment
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