Issues & Trends
American Hospital Association content on issues and trends in the health care field.
The two other most common payment models are Medicaid contracts with states or through a Medicaid health plan (60 percent) and direct contractual relationships with employers (24 percent), according to the American Hospital Association’s 2014 Survey of Care Systems and Payment.
Charitable donations of $358.38 billion in 2014 represent an increase of 7.1 percent in current dollars and 5.4 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars more than the $339.94 billion that Americans donated in 2013, according to the Giving Institute’s Giving USA 2015 annual report…
Trustee Spotlight Name: Edward HatcherOrganization: Grinnell (Iowa) Regional Medical CenterYears on the board: 17Board roles: President (1997, 1998), (2011, 2012); executive board member (1994–1999), (2009–current)Profession: Grain and livestock agricultural operator
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Years of deep cuts to mental health care services have left ill-equipped hospital emergency departments struggling to care for untreated patients. Three organizations confronted the problem head-on by integrating behavioral health into primary and specialty care, screening and supporting…
Other organizations’ population health activities focus on individuals living in a specific geographic area or community (66 percent), those experiencing a certain disease or condition (57 percent) or individuals for whom the organization has a financial risk (46 percent),…
Emergency physicians have noticed an increase in the volume of emergency department patients since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act on Jan. 1, 2014, according to a survey of American College of Emergency Physicians members. The poll, which sought to understand changes in ED patient…
Mergers and acquisitions are complex and daunting to accomplish, full of intricate legal and financial questions, business-benefit projections and formulas for extracting efficiencies of scale. All that due diligence generally is done by the time the organizations start to interact. And then…
Snapshot What are the levers that are moving health care toward transformation? Thinking about how we can unite to support these drivers of change constitutes a new kind of industry handbook.
Snapshot For boards to lead their organizations to value-based care, they will need highly skilled, energized and diverse members. However, a new governance survey finds that they have some work to do in diversity, competencies and turnover.
Snapshot State Medicaid programs are saving money and improving quality by adding risk-based reimbursement and care models that wrap around patients. The states to watch are Oregon, Arkansas, Vermont and New York. With many in the hospital field looking to Washington, D.C., for guidance on how…