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AHA Member Advisory on Upcoming Release of Hospital Price Transparency Study

AHA expects the release of a new price transparency report next week. See AHA resources to prepare your organization’s response to the study findings.

Telling the Hospital Story

Hospitals and health systems and their teams have been on the front lines battling the COVID-19 pandemic for nearly two years. Hospitals and health care workers have stood strong for their communities, and they have a vital role in our society to keep communities healthy.

Special Message: AHA Launches Health Equity Roadmap

Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the Health Equity Roadmap — an innovative framework to support hospitals and health systems in their efforts to become more equitable organizations and dismantle structural barriers to health and overall well-being.

The Health Equity Roadmap

The Health Equity Roadmap: A national initiative to improve health care outcomes, health equity, diversity and inclusion, and end health inequities.

The Hospital Community Cooperative (HCC) | Center

The Hospital Community Collaborative provides resources to hospitals and community organizations seeking to collaborate to accelerate health equity.

Community Health Improvement Week | Center

Community Health Improvement Week 2024 is June 10–14, a time to highlight hospitals and community organizations working together to enhance health and well-being and advance health equity.
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Fact Sheet: Rural Hospital Support Act (S.4009) & the Assistance for Rural Community Hospitals Act (H.R.8747)

Medicare pays most acute-care hospitals under the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS). Some of these hospitals receive additional support from Medicare to help address potential financial challenges associated with being rural, geographically isolated and low volume.

Advocacy Issue: Transparency and Competition

Hospitals and health systems have made important progress in adopting federal price transparency requirements that require they both publicly post machine-readable files of a wide range of rate information and provide more consumer-friendly displays of pricing information for at least 300 shoppable services.
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AHA Comments on No Surprises Act IDR Process Proposed Rule

AHA's comment on the proposed rule related to the operations of the Independent Dispute Resolution Process (IDR) established by the No Surprises Act.
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AHA Statement on “Health Care Spending in the United States: Unsustainable for Patients, Employers, and Taxpayers”

The AHA shares comments on the topic of national health expenditures before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health .