AHA’s 2012 list of advocacy goals includes three general areas with more specific concerns falling underneath. Here are issues AHA will push for in 2012:
1. Transforming the health care delivery system
- Improving hospital performance
- Delivery system reform programs
- Coverage
- Physician issues
- Health information technology
2. Maintaining essential resources
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Small or rural hospitals
- Outpatient evaluation and management services
- Annual appropriations
- Workforce
- Hospital capital financing
- Pension funding
3. Reducing regulatory burden
- Program integrity and contractor overlap
- Clinical integration
- Administrative simplification and ICD-10 implementation
- Medical liability reform
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