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The AHA today shared with Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services a report examining barriers to transforming health care delivery created by outdated fraud and abuse laws. The report identifies seven major barriers created by the Stark and Anti-Kickback laws and/or regulations that impede hospitals’ ability to coordinate care, and uses the example of a hypothetical 75-year-old patient navigating the health care system to illustrate the impact on patient care. It recommends enacting comprehensive safe harbors under the Anti-Kickback law and reforms to the Stark law to remove outdated barriers and replace them with measures to foster teamwork and ensure accountability. For more, see today’s AHA Stat . Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) last week released a  examining aspects of the Stark law that prevent moving to alternative payment models.