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Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...
I have been so proud to see America’s hospitals and health systems speak so passionately on behal...
The utilization review staff at HSHS St. Elizabeth's Hospital examines medical records for inpati...
In this study, the research team sought to compare the performance of provider-sponsored health p...
This year's winners of Health Care's Most Wired Survey are employing information technology to he...
This blog post is from H&HN, the journal of the American Hospital Association and was written by ...
Sylvia Getman, president and CEO of the Aroostook Medical Center and senior vice president of Eas...
With the rise in higher-deductible health plans and coinsurance, Americans are paying an increasi...
Managing population health, financial planning for value-based care and payment, and leading impr...
Whether cheering for soccer, tennis, baseball, softball or another sport, fans no doubt have witn...
Building off the 2013 HPOE guide on value-based contracting this guide provides additional financ...
Hospitals and health care systems can support their missions and also many additional benefits by...
The health care industry is shifting from volume- to value-based payment and care delivery models...
Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...
Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...
The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...
In July 2013, the AHA released another collection of action-oriented resources that can help hosp...
Board members have a critical role to play in setting the tone for meaningful quality improvement...
The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...
The 2012 AHA Committee on Performance Improvement focused on advanced illness management. Well-de...
The November issue of Trustee magazine delves into hospital mergers with a cover article featurin...
Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...
Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...
Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...
Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...
When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...
Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...
The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...
Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...
There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...
Clinical integration is needed to facilitate the coordination of patient care across conditions, ...
On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a final regulation for the ne...
Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...
This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...
As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...
The authors found little evidence that participation in the Premier HQID program led to lower 30-...
Transitioning to the new coding system is a mammoth undertaking, one that requires not just signi...
As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...
Continuum Health Partners' pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...
This report provides a detailed discussion of baseline health spending by state of residence (per...
RWJF video details three perspectives on the need for cost information
While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...
CMS issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for physician...
Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...
One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...
The eighth biennial survey of ACPE members identifies key trends and factors driving today's phys...
Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...
The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...
This report outlines promising provisions in the Affordable Care Act to achieve improved health a...
Reining in health care costs has become a central policy challenge for government and a pressing ...
The U.S. is facing an epidemic of chronic disease at the same time as it's facing tough decisions...