The
American Hospital Association calculated that the cost to hospitals in this country for uncompensated health care was $37 billion last year, but if a significant portion of the uninsured get coverage, the cost to hospitals will decrease.
And last fall, when federal legislators demanded that hospitals collect two pages of immigration data from patients to access a $1-billion fund for uninsured care, doctors and hospital administrators, including the
American Hospital Association and American Medical Association, revolted.
The
American Hospital Association and state organizations are battling frantically in legislatures, regulatory proceedings and the courts to stifle competition, complaining that there is no level playing field between, for instance, general community hospitals and physician-owned specialty hospitals.
The
American Hospital Association is calling on Congress to permanently ban the practice of self-referral of patients to new physician-owned specialty hospitals.
According to the
American Hospital Association, more than 112,000 people go to hospital emergency rooms each year for scald-related injuries.
The
American Hospital Association estimates up to 15,000 Canadian health care workers are employed in the U.S.A.
Now that AJR has had a chance to deposit what I presume was a hefty check from the
American Hospital Association for its pullout in the April/May issue, it would be nice to see a story about how the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act has emasculated local news coverage and provoked paranoia and secrecy among entities not even covered by the law.
The
American Hospital Association's career center which provides access to more than 4 million resumes and 300,000 industry jobs nationwide via career builder.com.
The
American Hospital Association's Health Forum recently released the 2002-2003 edition of the AHA Guide.
The volume of improper payments dropped from $23 billion in fiscal 1996, reported the
American Hospital Association.
To acknowledge the problem and publicly address the solution, in June 1998 the
American Hospital Association agreed to work with the U.S.