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Blogs from AHA leaders and members on the latest health care issues.
As part of National Rehabilitation Week, Michael Spigel, president and COO of Brooks Rehabilitation in Jacksonville, Fla., writes about the inevitability of change in rehab settings and why organizations should embrace it.
A recent report from UnitedHealth comparing specialty drug spending in hospitals and independent physician offices fails to account for critical differences between these two settings while also ignoring the chief culprit in the growth in drug spending 鈥 the drug companies themselves.
In this AHA Stat Blog, Marie Cleary-Fishman, R.N., AHA vice president of clinical quality, talks about the new digital Palliative Care Support Hub, where hospitals and health systems can find everything they need for designing, measuring and expanding palliative care services that put patients鈥
A recent New York Times column relies on several seriously flawed studies to make extremely broad claims about the care hospitals and health systems provide and the role they play in their communities.
In this AHA Stat Blog, Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA鈥檚 The Value Initiative, discusses manageable ways hospitals and health systems can become consumer-focused.
Policymakers should provide a stable environment for post-acute care providers to implement existing reforms and evaluate their impact, writes Jim Prister, CEO of RML Specialty Hospital in Hinsdale, Ill., and chair of the AHA鈥檚 Post-acute Care Steering Committee.
UnitedHealth Group鈥檚 brief on hospital prices uses cherry-picked data and omits important facts to paint a misleading picture.
A recent American Enterprise Institute blog on hospital prices fails to capture the full story on how hospitals and health systems have slowed price growth.
In this AHA Stat Blog, Jay Bhatt, senior vice president and chief medical officer of the AHA, looks at last year鈥檚 Innovation Challenge winners and how they have helped make an impact in their communities.
Elrod at the end called the appeal a 鈥渧ery complex case,鈥 and so predictions are even harder than usual. There is no deadline for the court鈥檚 decision.