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AHA Digital Pulse

This new benefit for AHA members will make it easier for you to monitor your performance over time and connect with others. Take your assessment and join the growing digital health community.
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Community Health Improvement Week | Center

Community Health Improvement Week is a time to highlight hospitals partnering to enhance health and well-being.
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Supporting Victims and Communities of Mass Violence Incidents

The Hospitals Against Violence Initiative (HAV) is proud to partner with the National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center (NMVVRC) to provide resources and support surrounding incidents of mass violence for the communities and patients served by our hospitals and health systems.
Letter/Comment
Public

AHA Comments on PTAC Total Cost of Care Model Proposal

AHA comments on PTAC Total Cost of Care Model Proposal.
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Advocacy Issue: Transparency and Competition

Hospitals and health systems have made important progress in adopting federal price transparency requirements that require they both publicly post machine-readable files of a wide range of rate information and provide more consumer-friendly displays of pricing information for at least 300 shoppable services.
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Community Health and Environment

Guidance and resources to support hospitals’ efforts to assess, plan for and respond to the environment’s impact on community health.
Advisory
Member

Administration Releases Executive Order on Health Care Price Transparency

The White House Feb. 25 issued an executive order that directs the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury to improve upon and increase enforcement of the hospital and insurer price transparency requirements in the Hospital Price Transparency and Transparency in Coverage regulations.
Fact Sheets
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Fact Sheet: Rural Hospital Support Act (S. 335) and the Assistance for Rural Community Hospitals Act

Medicare pays most acute-care hospitals under the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS). Some of these hospitals receive additional support from Medicare to help address potential financial challenges associated with being rural, geographically isolated and low volume.These programs are Medicare- dependent Hospitals (MDHs), Low-volume Adjustment (LVA) and Sole Community Hospitals (SCHs).
Issue Brief

Real Affordability Solutions from the Front Lines of Caring

Hospitals and health systems are where the most complex care is provided for ill and injured patients. Yet spending on inpatient and outpatient care has grown more slowly than spending on other health services. Hospitals and health systems have worked hard to provide the best value to patients and their families. Read more below.
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Convening Leaders for Emergency and Response (CLEAR)

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