Guides and Reports

American Hospital Association guides and reports for members and the health care field.

This report identifies the practical barriers to achieving the goals of a value-based payment system created by current laws and recommends specific legislative changes.
This report outlines two distinct analyses of the questions relating to the benefits achieved through hospital combinations and the “merger-specificity”² of those benefits.
Suggestions on Framing the Benefits of Hospital Mergers Monica Noether, Ph.D. and Sean May, Ph.D. January 2017
AHA commissioned a study to investigate hospital experiences with implementation of meaningful use stage 1 electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs).
Executive summary of the report of the AHA Task Force on Ensuring Access to Care in Vulnerable Communities.
Full 2016 report from the AHA Task Force on Ensuring Access to Care in Vulnerable Communities.