/ en Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:57:56 -0500 Fri, 27 Dec 24 13:12:39 -0600 <div><div class="row rowEqual_768"><div class="col-md-6"><div class="panel module-typeC"><div class="panel-body"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-12"><h4 class="text-align-center"><span>Financial Assistance and Strengthening Community Trust</span></h4></div></div><p><a href="/advocacy/advocacy-issues/transparency-and-competition"><span>AHA Patient Billing Guidelines</span></a></p><p><a href="/guidesreports/2020-02-05-eight-myths-about-hospital-mergers-and-acquisitions"><span>Price Transparency Resources </span></a></p></div></div></div><div class="col-md-6"><div class="panel module-typeC"><div class="panel-body"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-12"><h4 class="text-align-center"><span>Telling the Hospital Story and Community Engagement</span></h4></div></div><p><a href="/tellingthehospitalstory" target="_blank"><span>Telling the Hospital Story </span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.healthycommunities.org/resources/community-health-assessment-toolkit"><span>AHA/ACHI Community Health Assessment Tool </span></a></p><p><a href="/initiativescampaigns/2024-05-13-340b-hospital-commitment-good-stewardship-principles" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow"><span>AHA 340B Good Stewardship Principles </span></a></p><div class="row"> </div></div></div></div><div class="col-md-6"><div class="panel module-typeC"><div class="panel-body"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-12"><h4 class="text-align-center"><span>Advancing Health and Well-Being with Employees, Patients and the Community</span></h4></div></div><p><a href="https://ifdhe.aha.org/health-equity-and-value"><span>IFDHE Health Equity Roadmap and Related Resources</span></a></p><p><a href="/aha-workforce-scan"><span>2024 Workforce Scan</span></a></p><p><a href="/hospitals-against-violence-havhope"><span>Hospitals Against Violence/ #HAVHope</span></a></p><div class="row"> </div></div></div></div><div class="col-md-6"><div class="panel module-typeC"><div class="panel-body"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-12"><h4 class="text-align-center"><span>Protecting Patients and Cybersecurity</span></h4></div></div><p><a href="/aha-patient-safety-initiative"><span>AHA Patient Safety Initiative</span></a></p><p><a href="/advocacy/leveraging-technology"><span>AHA Cybersecurity Resources</span></a></p><div class="row"> </div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="row"><p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="/public-trust-and-accountability">Return to Public Trust and Accountability Home</a></p></div> Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:12:39 -0600 Systemic and Shared Accountability .entity-moderation-form {display: none;} Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:12:35 -0600 Systemic and Shared Accountability /news/headline/2022-11-03-senate-committee-reports-rise-deceptive-medicare-advantage-marketing-practices <p>Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today <a href="https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Deceptive%20Marketing%20Practices%20Flourish%20in%20Medicare%20Advantage.pdf" target="_blank">released a report</a> confirming deceptive marketing practices by Medicare Advantage plans, which found an increase in complaints from 2020 to 2021. The report recommends the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reinstate certain MA plan requirements and hold bad actors accountable; require agents and brokers to adhere to best practices; implement robust MA marketing rules; and support unbiased beneficiary information sources. </p> <p>“It is unacceptable for this magnitude of fraudsters and scam artists to be running amok in Medicare and I will be working closely with CMS to ensure this dramatic increase in marketing complaints is addressed,” <a href="https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-reports-deceptive-marketing-practices-in-medicare-advantage-that-harm-seniors" target="_blank">Wyden said</a>.  </p> <p>AHA yesterday <a href="/guidesreports/2022-11-01-addressing-commercial-health-plan-challenges-ensure-fair-coverage-patients-and-providers" target="_blank">urged</a> the departments of Health and Human Services and Labor to take additional steps to ensure adequate oversight of commercial health plans, citing concern that certain MA and other plans are erecting barriers to care and pushing more of the cost onto patients. </p> Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:31:34 -0500 Systemic and Shared Accountability