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Speaking Up for Priorities That Will Help Hospitals Advance Health for Patients and Communities
It is important to use the August recess that begins next week as an opportunity to engage senators and representatives while they are back home. It is critical for federal lawmakers to understand the challenges hospitals and health systems face.
AHA report shows commercial health insurance policies compromise patient safety, raise costs
Today AHA released a report showing that commercial insurance costs are increasing at an unsustainable rate while many plan policies create dangerous delays in care, contribute to clinician burnout and significantly drive up administrative costs for the health care system.
Five Ways Commercial Insurer Policies Drive Up Costs and Hurt Patients
The AHA is committed to further identifying ways to improve health care system efficiency while providing the highest quality of care.
Protecting Access to Care by Confronting Commercial Insurers’ Harmful Policies
Delaying and denying authorizations for medically necessary care. Forcing patients to try potentially ineffective treatments through step therapy, or “fail first” protocols that require patients to try and fail certain treatments before the insurer will authorize more costly treatments.
Speak Up, Be Heard and Exercise Your Right to Vote
Forty-six days from now on Nov. 8 millions of Americans will cast their ballots and exercise their most sacred right – the right to vote.