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Measuring Quality and Operational Efficiencies Across the Continuum of Care
Health systems are adopting innovative ways to collect and use performance data to build patient-centered and high-value care delivery models.
On Target: Leveraging a Retail Giant's Locations as the Foundation for Developing an Ambulatory Network
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Problem: Ambulatory strategy decisions and physician practice acquisitions were reactive in response to internally identified opportunities. The goal for Thomas Jefferson University Hospital was to create a tool to evaluate markets in relation to each other that would inform future decision-making around regional strategy.
Hospital Outpatient, Ambulatory Surgical Center Final Rule for CY 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nov. 2 released its calendar year (CY) 2024 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) and ambulatory surgical center (ASC) final rule. It increases OPPS rates by a net 3.1% in CY 2024 compared to CY 2023 and includes final policies regarding hospital price transparency, behavioral health services and Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs).
CMS Issues Hospital Outpatient, Ambulatory Surgical Center Final Rule for CY 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nov.
A Tale of Three Cities: The Secrets to Successful Ambulatory Strategy Creation, Approval, and Implementation for Urban, Suburban, and Rural Markets
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Executive Leaders of three diverse health care providers share their recent experiences and efforts to expand the impact of their ambulatory networks.
AHA Comments on CMS Outpatient PPS and Ambulatory Surgery Payment System Proposed Rule for CY 2024
AHA comments on the CMS' hospital outpatient prospective payment system and ambulatory surgical center payment system proposed rule for calendar year (CY) 2024.
Fact Sheet: Sen. Sanders Bill Would Reduce Funding for Patient Care, Add Burden on Health Care Providers
The AHA strongly opposes policies to decrease hospital reimbursements by eliminating “facility fees,” which are the direct and indirect costs that allow a hospital to continue to provide services to patients and serve the needs of their community.
Urge Your Lawmakers Not to Enact Proposals That Would Reduce Access to Care
A series of recent developments in Congress are adding significant urgency to AHA’s fight against site-neutral payment and other policies that would irreparably damage hospitals’ abilities to care for their communities, including a move to use rate setting that would offer commercial insurers a financial windfall at the expense of providers.
Hospital Outpatient, Ambulatory Surgical Center Proposed Rule for CY 2024
The AHA is deeply concerned that CMS is proposing a CY 2024 outpatient hospital payment update of only 2.8% despite persistent financial headwinds facing the hospital field.
AHA Statement Opposing House Energy & Commerce Committee Bill Markup
AHA statement on legislative proposals that are to be considered before the Energy and Commerce Committee on May 24.