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AHA Senate Statement for the Record on Health Care Transparency: Lowering Costs and Empowering Patients
The American Hospital Association shares the hospital field’s comments on health care costs and transparency before the Senate Special Committee on Aging.
AHA Statement to Senate Budget Committee on Alleviating Administrative Burden in Health Care
The AHA provides comments before the Senate Committee on Budget on ways to reduce administrative burden and costs in the health care system.
AHA House Statement on "ERISA’s 50th Anniversary: The Path to Higher Quality, Lower Cost Health Care"
AHA comments in response to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce efforts to build upon and strengthen the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
Medical Device Excise Tax - What You Should Know
Issue Brief
The Medical Device Excise Tax, a component of the Affordable Care Act, is approaching implementation at the beginning of 2013.
Special Fraud Alert: Physician-Owned Entities
Advisory
This Special Fraud Alert focuses on the specific attributes and practices of PODs that OIG believes produce substantial fraud and abuse risk and pose dangers to patient safety.
CMS Releases Final Rules for CY 2011 Hospital Outpatient/ASC Payment System, Physician Fee Schedule and Home Health Payment System
Advisory
An overview of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' three final rules for calendar year 2011 the outpatient prospective payment system and ambulatory surgical center rule, the Me
AHRMM Statement on Comparative Effectiveness
Letter/Comment
AHRMM supports the concept and use of Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) to provide evidence-based data to help inform purchasing decisions.
Measuring the Correlation between Cost, Quality, and Outcomes in Healthcare
Advisory
Executive Summary
Today’s healthcare environment is rapidly changing.
Fact Sheet: Hospital Costs Explained
The mission of each and every hospital in America is to serve the health care needs of the people in its community 24 hours a day, seven days a week. But, hospitals’ work is made more difficult by our fragmented health care system — a system that leaves millions of people unable to afford the health care services they need.
Value Based Purchasing Awareness Brief
Issue Brief
This Awareness Brief provides a high level summary understanding of value based purchasing.