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Government, businesses, insurance companies and many others must act to help make health care more affordable.
Hospitals are the place where the most complex care is provided for ill and injured patients, and they account for the largest share \(33 percent\) of the health care dollar. Spending on hospital care has grown more slowly than spending on other health services as hospitals worked hard to make care…
Assessment of Cost Trends and Price Differences for U.S. Hospitals
A report by economists Margaret Guerin-Calvert and Guillermo Israilevich with Compass Lexecon which provides an in-depth examination of the costs hospitals incur in providing patient care and why those costs may differ among various types of hospitals, as well as the relationship of costs to prices…
Assessment of Cost Trends and Price Differences for U.S. Hospitals - A PowerPoint Overview
The AHA, AAMC, CHA, FAH, NACH, and NAPHHS today filed a joint amici brief in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals opposing a lower court decision finding the ACA's individual mandate unconstitutional.
Racial and socioeconomic inequity persists in health care quality. An exploratory interview with three hospital leaders substantiated by a review of the literature reveals that hospitals are collecting race, ethnicity and primary language data about their patients. Leading hospitals are now moving…
AHA and other hospital associations file amici brief in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the lower court's decision upholding the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) presented two federal hospital leaders with awards recognizing their outstanding service to the health care field.