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Valley Regional Hospital CEO Peter Wright Leads with a Customer-focused Mindset

The AHA board member uses consumerism to differentiate Valley Regional.

AHA Proposes Ways to Improve Health Care Price Transparency

AHA today recommended that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services convene a multi-stakeholder process to advance price transparency in health care.

UnitedHealth Brings on More Doctors in ‘Arms Race’ with Hospitals; Boston Marathon Survivors Spark Health Care Advances

Also in this week’s roundup: New research shows millennials are more apt to use non-traditional ways to engage with the health care system, and large study offers more evidence of a link between traumatic brain injuries and dementia later in life.

AHA’s Hatton, Panel Discuss Health Care Prices

Reducing regulations and expanding care models that ensure coordination and reward performance are two ways to address health care prices, AHA General Counsel Melinda Hatton said today during a Kaiser Family Foundation panel discussion focused on the issue.

Avoiding Surprise Medical Bills

The AHA believes patients and their families should be protected from the financial burdens of unexpected medical bills.
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AHA Update: Additional Information on CMS’s Updated Price Transparency Guidance

In its fiscal year 2019 inpatient prospective payment system final rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services updated federal guidelines to comply with the statutory requirement that “each hospital operating within the United States” make its standard charges available on an annual basis. AHA members have raised a number of questions about this guidance as they prepare for implementation on Jan. 1, 2019.
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Consumerism Forcing Change in Health IT; Drone Deliveries; and Medicaid and Rural Hospitals

Read about health care organizations' needs to pick up the pace in embracing consumerism; health care uses for drone deliveries; and how health care has been inextricably linked to Medicaid in rural areas.