Rick Pollack
President and CEO, AHA
Rick Pollack is president and CEO of the American Hospital Association (AHA), the nation’s largest hospital and health care system membership organization with nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health care systems, networks, and other providers of care.
Articles
Workforce
Perspective: The hospital of the future needs a workforce to match
In order to succeed, we need the best people.
Leadership, Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy, Physician Self-Referral Law/Stark law
Perspective: Reducing the regulatory burden to improve coordinated patient care
By removing outdated barriers to teamwork, hospitals and doctors will be able to advance health in America.
Cybersecurity
Perspective: Protecting hospitals, health systems and patients from cyber attacks
The AHA is proud to be your partner in keeping your data — and your patients — safe.
Price Transparency, Health Insurance, AHA
AHA letter to editor: Insurers key to health care cost transparency
The government can help by explicitly requiring insurers to respond to all inquiries with up-to-date information and to develop a secure and accurate out-of-pocket cost estimator tool for providers.
Affordable Care Act
Perspective: Latest ACA report card — saving lives and improving health outcomes
Rather than subjecting the nation to yet another polarizing debate on health care, there’s a better way.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Perspective: Demystifying AI’s role in the future of health care
This is just one way AHA is working to help hospitals and health systems transform and advance health in America.
Leadership, AHA, Medicaid DSH, Advocacy & Public Policy, Innovation, Mergers & Acquisitions
Perspective: Engaging members to shape the future
At this year’s National RPB, we set out to build on our last RPB conversations; do a deep dive on key and emerging issues; refine our strategies on price transparency; develop options to address concerns relative to Medicare Advantage plans; and advocate for action on major policies that affect us in terms of current issues being debated on Capitol Hill such as surprise billing, Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital and site-neutral payment.
Hospitals Against Violence, Community Violence, Leadership
Perspective: Stopping gun violence starts in the community
As cornerstones of your communities, hospital and health system leaders have the unique authority to lead initiatives to reduce the risk for violence and advocate for advancing health.
Mergers & Acquisitions, AHA
Perspective: New research confirms that hospital mergers reduce costs and enhance quality of care
Hospital mergers and creating “system-ness” is sometimes misunderstood as being motivated to gain leverage to increase prices. Such claims are clearly off base.
Making Healthcare More Affordable, Quality & Patient Safety
AHA responds to New York Times column
A recent New York Times column relies on several seriously flawed studies to make extremely broad claims about the care hospitals and health systems provide and the role they play in their communities.