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The Hospital Community Cooperative (HCC) | Center

The Hospital Community Collaborative provides resources to hospitals and community organizations seeking to collaborate to accelerate health equity.
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AHA Response to Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) RFI

Health insurers have gone through dramatic vertical consolidation since ERISA was signed into law. Over the last decade, the major corporate insurers have spent billions of dollars acquiring not only other plans, but also providers, pharmacy service companies, and health technology and claims adjudication systems.

Convening Leaders for Emergency and Response (CLEAR)

AHA’s resource hub for emergency response and disaster preparedness.

Advocacy Issue: Mergers and Acquisitions

One of the most important tools that hospitals can use to increase access and quality of care and manage risk and financial pressures are mergers and acquisitions. A range of partnerships, mergers and acquisitions enable hospitals to expand service offerings, broaden networks and access to specialists, improve quality and better serve patients where they live.
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AHA to Agencies: Don’t Finalize Draft Merger Guidelines

The AHA today urged the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice not to finalize the draft guidelines describing how the agencies review mergers and acquisitions to determine compliance with federal antitrust laws.

AHA Letter to the Attorney General and FTC on Draft Merger Guidelines

The Agencies now offer draft merger guidelines that provide virtually no meaningful guidance to hospitals and health systems. The Draft Guidelines ignore serious flaws in contemporary enforcement practice and overlook recent judicial opinions that contradict their more aggressive proposed changes. The Agencies propose a structural presumption that is arbitrarily low and potentially fatal to beneficial transactions.
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AHA Urges FTC to Withdraw Proposed Changes to Premerger Notification Rules

American Hospital Association opposes the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed amendments to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) form and instructions. 

AHA Statement of Record for House Ways and Means Committee July 26, 2023

The American Hospital Association would like to provide feedback on sections of H.R. 4822, the “Health Care Price Transparency Act of 2023,” as well as H.R. 3284, the “Providers and Payers COMPETE Act.”
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FTC Urged to Extend Comment Period for Draft Merger Guidelines

The AHA joins the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other organizations in urging the Federal Trade Commission to extend for at least 60 days the comment period for their draft guidance revising how they review mergers and acquisitions to determine compliance with federal antitrust laws.
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Request to FTC for Extension on Proposed Rulemaking for the HSR Filing Process

Request to the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice to extend the comment period to the above-referenced rulemaking (the "Proposal") for an additional 60 days.