By Chip Kahn, President and CEO, Federation of American Hospitals At the end of 2023, I wrote to you that the political winds of 2024 would determine the policymaking for 2025. The questions facing us […]
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“Missing the Forest for the Trees” – How one study gets hospital coding changes wrong
By Don May, Senior Vice President of Policy, Federation of American Hospitals It is unfortunate a recent study by RAND published in Health Affairs contending that hospitals are inappropriately profiting from increased “upcoding” of patients […]
Care Close to Home – FAH Celebrates Rural Hospital Week 2023
Every day, across our nation, millions of Americans in small communities depend on rural hospitals for crucial, and in some cases, lifesaving care. These facilities are often the sole comprehensive health provider in these areas […]
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Theories Don’t Replace Facts: Physician-owned Hospitals Cherry-pick Patients, Lead to Lower Quality and Less Access
By Chip Kahn, Federation of American Hospitals President and CEO, and Stacey Hughes, American Hospital Association Executive Vice President One of the tenets of our nation’s health care system is a level playing field in […]
