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
Physician Self-Referral Law/Stark law, Hospital Value-based Purchasing
Perspective: Time to Make Stark Work for 21st Century Care
We’ve collected examples and outlined how the physician self-referral, or “Stark,” law impedes coordination and shared concrete recommendations for modernizing the law with legislators and regulators. Now, we’re pleased to see that there is a growing consensus and momentum among legislators and regulators on both sides of the aisle that some changes are needed.
Making Healthcare More Affordable
Perspective: Focusing on Affordability
Bending the cost curve to make care more affordable is a complex challenge. But it is a challenge that hospitals and health systems are tackling head on.
Workforce, Leadership
Perspective: Honoring the Unsung Heroes of Yesterday and Today
Health care is full of unsung heroes. Millions of women and men of America’s hospitals and health systems are working every day to improve the health and lives of their neighbors and communities
Workforce Diversity
Perspective: Moving from Diversity to Inclusion
Tt the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity’s National Leadership and Education Conference in Chicago, several hundred hospital leaders, diversity practitioners and leaders in the diversity field came together for three days of thought-provoking discussions and workshops.
Opioids, Advocacy & Public Policy, Opioid Use Disorder, Access to Behavioral Health
Perspective: Making Progress Against the Opioid Epidemic
We were pleased to see the House of Representatives this week move forward dozens of bills designed to address aspects of the opioid epidemic that costs more than 100 American lives each day and continues to ravage communities across the nation.
Redefining the H, Innovation/New Models of Care
Perspective: Accelerating Innovation
We believe it’s important for hospital and health system leaders to understand the trends and forces impacting the field, as well as the opportunities disruptive innovation may create. That’s why we’ve created a new home on AHA.org to track and analyze these trends.
Veterans Administration (VA)
Perspective: Caring for Our Veterans
This weekend we pause to observe Memorial Day to remember those who died and served our nation protecting our freedom and liberty.
Medicare, Access & Health Coverage
AHA Responds to Commentators Calling for Capping Payments at Medicare Rates
Government administered pricing at the Medicare level for all purchasers of health care services – as suggested in a recent opinion piece that appeared in the Washington Post titled, “There’s a genuine solution to our health-care problem” – would disrupt the fragile financing system that ensures the provision of access to essential services for all Americans, and would prevent private-sector innovation that supports medical research, education and the creation of medical miracles.
Redefining the H, AHA Annual Membership Meeting, National Hospital Week
Perspective: Insights from the AHA Annual Meeting
We at the AHA are honored to represent America’s hospitals and health systems and are proud to be your partner on this journey. As National Hospital Week draws to a close, thank you for all you do every day to advance health in America.
National Hospital Week, AHA Annual Membership Meeting
Perspective: Celebrating the Best of America’s Hospitals and Health Systems
On Sunday, May 6, we kick off National Hospital Week and pause to celebrate the 5.5 million women and men who make America’s hospitals and health systems such special places.