Issue Landing Page
Landing pages for the American Hospital Association's top advocacy issues.
Hospitals and health systems have made important progress in adopting federal price transparency requirements that require they both publicly post machine-readable files of a wide range of rate information and provide more consumer-friendly displays of pricing information for at least 300 shoppable…
Some members of Congress continue to propose weakening Medicare’s prohibition on physician self-referral to new physician-owned hospitals and loosening restrictions on the growth of grandfathered hospitals. Legislation has been introduced that would allow problematic physician-owned hospitals to…
AHA is engaged on a number of evolving issues that impact the field and the patients and communities that hospitals and health systems serve. Each issue page explains the issue, outlines AHA’s position and provides resources and other supporting materials to help advocates succeed in their work.
For 25 years, the 340B program has provided hospitals with financial help to expand access to life-saving prescription drugs and comprehensive health care services to low-income and uninsured individuals in communities across the country.
988 is a newly Federally designated number that, as of July 16, will connect with the current National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255). When fully implemented, the 988 number will offer crisis response services including stabilization, mobile team dispatch, and connections to follow-up…
Hospitals and health systems can play an important role in ensuring children and adolescents receive the behavioral health care they need to thrive.
AHA and AHRQ are releasing a new toolkit for preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in intensive care units. It the customizable resource offers assessment tools and a reduction plan.
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Post-acute care is a growing and essential health and social service, accounting for more $2.7 trillion spent on personal health care, and, of that, almost 15% of total Medicare spending. Post-acute care settings include long-term care hospitals (LTCHs), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs),…
The Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) program provides essential financial assistance to hospitals that care for our nation’s most vulnerable populations – children, the poor, the disabled and the elderly. However, the projected increase in coverage has not been fully realized due to…