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Get answers to your questions on health care affordability.
Health care costs can feel confusing, especially when bills arrive. Not every medical bill is hospital-related, but below are answers to some common questions about hospital care.
Fact Sheet: Hospital Price Transparency
Hospitals and health systems are committed to empowering patients with all the information they need to live their healthiest lives. This includes ensuring they have access to accurate price information when seeking care. Most hospitals use cost estimate tools to provide patient-specific price information because every course of care is unique.
Transforming Care for Older Adults
Resources to help hospitals and health systems address the unique care needs of older adults, including chronic diseases like heart disease or diabetes, and loneliness and isolation.
Community Health Improvement Week | Center
Community Health Improvement Week is a time to highlight hospitals partnering to enhance health and well-being.
Older Adult Behavioral Health
With approximately 10,000 Americans turning 65 every day, older adults’ behavioral health is an area of significant concern — particularly when you consider that chronic conditions common in older adults such as diabetes, stroke, hearing loss or heart disease can put them at greater risk of depression and anxiety.
Member Issue Brief: Implementing Patient Out-of-pocket Cost Estimators
This issue brief lays out the key components of effective online tools used by hospitals and health systems to help patients understand their potential out-of-pocket costs and highlights several different approaches providers have taken.
The Hospital Community Collaborative (HCC) | Center
The Hospital Community Collaborative provides resources to hospitals seeking to collaborate to reduce disparities in health outcomes.
Fact Sheet: Rural Hospital Support Act (S. 335) and the Assistance for Rural Community Hospitals Act (H.R.1805)
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 Low-volume Adjustment (LVA)Medicare-dependent Hospitals (MDHs), and Sole Community Hospitals (SCHs).
Peer Support Issue Brief
Hospitals and health systems are enhancing the way they deliver care to improve patient care and outcomes, prepare for the future and strengthen sustainability. One key driver to transforming care is expanding the non-clinical workforce to improve patient experience and outcomes and reduce clinical staff burnout. Peer Support Specialists (PSS) can play an impactful role in helping hospitals and health systems achieve these goals. PSS are people with lived experience, living in recovery from psychiatric and/or substance use disorders, who provide non-clinical, strengths-based support to others seeking individualized recovery guidance.
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.