Legislation and Legislative Advocacy
The American Hospital Association (AHA) shares resources on health care legislation being considered by the U.S. House and Senate and legislative advocacy opportunities for hospitals and health systems.
American Hospital Association leaders like to say that every day is advocacy day, and that there is no better advocate for your hospital than you, the hospital trustee.
Rural health care boards and executives are transforming their organizations for a new world of accountable care marked by changing payment models, heightened expectations for physician alignment and greater need for collaboration. The 2016 Rural Health Care Leadership Conference Feb. 7–10 in…
To meet the changing needs of our communities, hospitals are working hard to make sure that every individual receives the highest quality of care. To achieve that goal as our nation becomes increasingly diverse, we must redouble our efforts to identify and eliminate disparities in care.
Health care organizations face a great deal of regulatory risk in physician-hospital contracts, billing issues, quality and privacy. For physician-hospital contracts, the laws, enacted to discourage fraud, require complex contracts along with a high level of documentation. Failing to follow the…
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A series of high-profile breaches underscored the vulnerability of online records and the ability of cyber-criminals to quickly adapt their tactics. Providers and vendors are intensifying efforts to protect data from prying eyes.
Recognizing the importance of social media is the first step in taking your hospital into the digital world. Understanding the value and the potential of this medium can help to leverage your community benefit programs and patient engagement in a way never possible before the advent of the Internet.
Now that the King v. Burwell verdict is behind us, let’s look at the case through a different lens. If you and your board members were well-informed about the case and its implications, your board is likely well-positioned to monitor enterprise risk-management developments.…
This is an excerpt of real-time analysis of today’s Supreme Court ruling provided by Sean Marotta, an associate in the Washington office of Hogan Lovells, who focuses on appellate and Supreme Court litigation, and is outside counsel for the American Hospital Association. Marotta will be…
Reducing readmissions is an important way to improve quality and lower health care spending, and hospitals are making significant progress. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported that the national readmission rate (i.e., instances when patients return to the same or different…
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…