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Societal Factors That Influence Health

AHA presents a framework to support hospitals and health systems and actions they can take at each level (structural, community, personal) to improve health equity. Numerous studies have demonstrated a link between the social determinants of health and key health outcomes. AHA has worked to promote widespread use of ICD-10-CM codes that enable provider to collect data on the social determinants of health.
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Making Health Care More Affordable: Price Transparency and Eliminating ‘Surprise’ Billing

Just as there are challenges to making health care more affordable, there are many opportunities to reduce costs without compromising care. Hospitals are pursuing these opportunities in variety of ways. Many are tackling the affordability issue already, seeking change that makes sense for them and the communities they serve, and working to improve, price transparency and eliminate ‘surprise’ billing.

IFDHE blog: Juneteenth serves as a reminder to stay the course on health equity issues

In a blog about the third year of Juneteenth’s acknowledgement as a national holiday, Joy A. Lewis, AHA’s senior vice president for health equity strategies and executive director of the AHA Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, discusses the importance of the holiday becoming established as a day of scholarship and education, and an opportunity for hospitals and health systems to educate all employees on health equity causes. 

AHA case study: Urgent care reduces behavioral health hospital visits, disparities

Cone Health partnered with Guilford County in 2021 to create the first behavioral health urgent care center in North Carolina, quickly reducing hospital stays and emergency department visits for behavioral health while shrinking health disparities.

HHS webinar June 22 on tax incentives to reduce health sector emissions 

June 22 at noon ET, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Climate Change and Health Equity will host a webinar to review the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax incentives to reduce emis

FDA launches pilot program for certain LDTs for cancer patients

The Food and Drug Administration June 20 released guidance on a new voluntary pilot program intended to improve certain laboratory-developed tests used to identify patients for treatment with certain oncology drug products

HHS alerts health sector to new ransomware threat

The Department of Health and Human Services Friday alerted the health sector to a recent ransomware attack on a U.S. cancer center that reduced cancer treatment capability, rendered digital services unavailable and threatened exposure of patient personal health information.