Commercial Insurer Accountability
This week, the AHA released an updated Costs of Caring report, which provides a data-driven assessment of the structural drivers of hospital care cost growth.
This is the next in a series of hearings examining health care costs and exploring options to make care more affordable.
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today hosted a hearing titled “Lowering Health Care Costs for All Americans: An Examination of the Prescription Drug Supply Chain.”
The American Hospital Association (AHA) provides the hospital perspective on the issues impacting health care workforce burnout before the Senate Special Committee on Aging.
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health and Ways and Means Committee Jan. 22 hosted hearings on health care affordability that included testimony from leaders of five major commercial health insurers: Stephen Hemsley, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, David Joyner, chairman and CEO of CVS…
The issue of affordability, including health care affordability, is front and center this year and will be part of this year's congressional and administration discussions, as well as the mid-term elections.
This statement highlights what hospitals, clinicians, and patients are experiencing on the ground — and why commercial insurer practices are playing a growing role in driving up costs, creating delays and undermining affordability.
The following statement highlights what hospitals, clinicians, and patients are experiencing on the ground — and why commercial insurer practices are playing a growing role in driving up costs, creating delays and undermining affordability.
Every year tens of millions of Americans dig deep into their pocketbooks to pay for health insurance plans that will cover both preventive and necessary care for individuals and families.
Please contact your representative prior to the Jan. 22 House hearings to share with them how some commercial insurer policies and practices delay, deny and disrupt care for patients.