Setting the Record Straight
Setting the Record Straight
Time and time again, it鈥檚 been proven that non-profit hospitals more than earn their tax-exempt status by providing benefits determined to best serve each community.
Modern Healthcare鈥檚 putative report on CMS鈥 340B remedy proposal is completely wrong and irresponsible for the following reasons. First, to buttress its conclusions the article relies on quotes from an academic whose 340B research is funded in whole or in part by an organization with an anti-鈥
America鈥檚 hospitals and health systems, regardless of size, location and ownership type, provided essential care to their patients and communities during the pandemic. Congress recognized the critical role hospitals play as the backbone of our health care system and swiftly took steps in the early鈥
A new opinion piece supported by Arnold Ventures and published in the New England Journal of Medicine is another unfair assault on the only sector in health care that routinely gives back so much more to their communities than they receive in tax relief.
A recently published article in Health Affairs on hospital finances and financial assistance uses a flawed, debunked methodology to justify preconceived conclusions about how hospitals manage their finances.
A new AHIP 鈥渞eport鈥 suggests that hospitals are significantly marking up the costs of drugs to the detriment of patients. They make baseless claims that specialty pharmacies, many of which insurers conveniently own through their pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) affiliates, provide a lower-cost鈥
America鈥檚 hospitals and health systems do far more than any other part of the health care field to advance health in their communities. The fact is that all hospitals and health systems 鈥 regardless of size, location, and type of ownership 鈥 are dedicated to not only caring for their patients, but鈥
The AHA has previously noted the third party observers who demonstrate a tenuous grasp of the data and rules regarding federal hospital transparency requirements.
The March 21 Health & Science article 鈥淢any Americans 鈥 especially those below U.S. poverty level 鈥 are buried in hospital bills鈥 missed a major reason that medical debt has increased in our country: the rise of high-deductible and skinny insurance plans that result in larger out-of-pocket鈥
The editorial board of The Washington Post has published an opinion piece calling for payment cuts to hospitals and health systems as part of efforts to stabilize the Medicare program.