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AHA Exclusive Executive Events
Issue Landing Page
Connect with hospital C-Suite executives at events focused on important health care issues.
Making Health Care More Affordable: Price Transparency and Eliminating ‘Surprise’ Billing
Just as there are challenges to making health care more affordable, there are many opportunities to reduce costs without compromising care. Hospitals are pursuing these opportunities in variety of ways. Many are tackling the affordability issue already, seeking change that makes sense for them and the communities they serve, and working to improve, price transparency and eliminate ‘surprise’ billing.
Integrated Behavioral Health is High-value Care
This issue brief examines how integration can take various forms based on provider, patient and community needs and how telebehavioral health can help in areas with shortages of behavioral health professionals.
The Value Initiative: Framing the Issue of Affordable Health Care
Improving affordability remains a top issue for consumers, lawmakers and the health care sector. To that end, in 2017 the AHA Board of Trustees created the Committee on Health Strategy & Innovation to examine the complex issue of affordability. This committee was asked to challenge standard assumptions related to health care costs and value; to ask the hard questions; and, to identify the role that hospitals and health systems can play in improving health care affordability.
Issue Briefs
AHA's Issue briefs frame the issue of affordability and can be used by hospitals and health systems to initiate conversations with stakeholders in their communities.
The Value Initiative Issue Brief: Measuring the Value of Team-based Care: A Dashboard for Health Care Organizations
Learn about real-life examples of hospitals that have utilized team-based care to improve value.
From Paper to Action
As The Value Initiative’s efforts go forward, we will take this work From Paper to Action. This effort empowers hospitals, health systems and community organizations with tools and resources to implement four low-tech, value-based strategies that improve outcomes, enhance patient experience, while reducing costs.
The Value Initiative Issue Brief: Team-based Care Creates Value
To better support patients and their families through an acute or chronic illness, hospitals are adopting team-based models of care that encompass patients’ medical and social needs across the care continuum.
The Value Initiative Issue Brief: Creating Value by Bringing Hospital Care Home
As hospitals consider how and where they deliver care to patients, many are seeing the hospital-at-home model as a promising approach to improve value.
Member Issue Brief: Implementing Patient Out-of-pocket Cost Estimators
Patients have many questions when planning for their care. An important one is: How much is this going to cost me?