Fact Sheets
The American Hospital Association (AHA) fact sheets on important issues facing hospitals and health systems. Fact Sheets define the terms of issues facing hospitals and health systems and provide in-depth explanations of the AHA's position on these issues.
Get the facts on 8 common misconceptions about the rising costs of prescription drugs.
Fact: Drug spending is significant and growing each year. Drug manufacturers like to point to retail drug spending, which is around 10 percent of total health care spending,i while ignoring total drug spending, which was 16.7 percent (or $457 billion) in 2015
Fact Sheet: Changes to Site-neutral Payment Provisions in CMS's Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule
Section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BiBA) requires that, with the exception of emergency department (ED) services,1 services furnished in off-campus provider-based departments (PBDs) that began billing under the outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) on or after Nov. 2, 2015 (…
Please continue to reach out to your senators, particularly Republican senators, at this critical time. Urge them to reject the AHCA and protect health coverage for as many Americans as possible.
The following is an explanation of hospital charges, payment and costs.
Financial fact sheets from AHA's Policy Research.
Implementing the Unique Device Identifier Fact Sheet
Underpayment by Medicare and Medicaid to U.S. hospitals was $51 billion in 2014. Medicare reimbursed 89 cents and Medicaid reimbursed 90 cents for every dollar hospitals spent caring for these patients. This fact sheet provides the definition of underpayment and technical information on how this…
In 2014, community hospitals have provided more than $42.8 billion in uncompensated care to their patients. This fact sheet provides the definition of uncompensated care and technical information on how this figure is calculated on a cost basis.
Guidance from the Office of Civil Rights