Access & Health Coverage
AHA comments on the CMS' proposed changes on how certain forms of noncomprehensive coverage, including short-term, limited-duration plans, can be marketed and sold.
A new “report” from Elevance Health — the large, for-profit commercial insurer formerly known as Anthem — draws absurd conclusions about the impact of health care systems on access to care, cost and quality. Of greatest irony is that while the national health plan behemoth, which dominates many…
In April, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics opened a new 30-room short stay unit to help ease overcrowding and streamline the hospital experience for short-term patients requiring observation
AHA and 48 national organizations' letter to Senators Klobuchar and Collins in support of the Conrad State 30 and Physician
Access Reauthorization Act (S.665).
AHA and 48 other national associations express support of House and Senate legislation, the Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4942, S. 665).
The Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury last week released a proposed rule intended to limit the sale of non-comprehensive health care coverage and promote greater consumer understanding of their coverage options.
Health insurance policies and practices are reducing access to medical care, driving up health care costs and increasing clinician burden and burnout, according to patients and clinicians surveyed by Morning Consult for the AHA.
Congress returns to Washington this week with a full legislative agenda before its scheduled August recess.
Commercial health insurer policies and administrative practices delay patient care, overburden clinicians and add unnecessary costs to the health care system, according to a new poll of health care consumers conducted by the Morning Consult.
Nurses report insurers' administrative requirements: 84% Delay patients' access to necessary care; 74% Reduce patients' quality of care; 63% Interfere with patients being transferred to the right care setting. Physicians report insurers' administrative requirements: 80% Affect their ability to…