The 14 key areas include:
- Improving hospital performance
- New healthcare delivery programs
- Coverage
- Physician issues
- Medical liability reform
- Essential resources for patients and communities
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Small or rural hospitals
- Health information technology
- Annual appropriations
- Workforce
- Hospital capital financing
- Roadblocks to reducing costs
- Regulatory relief
- Clinical integration
The 14 issue papers will be featured at the AHA’s Annual Membership meeting, scheduled for next week in Washington, D.C.
Read the AHA News Now report on the AHA’s issue papers.
View all 14 AHA issue papers.
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