
The Truth About Hospital Costs And Payments
“We strongly discourage anyone from taking seriously the Arnold Ventures misinformation campaign and the flawed conclusions in (the Third Way report.)” With that, the American Hospital Association (AHA) seeks to dismiss a very credible analysis on the truth about hospital costs and finances. Hospital lobby playbook If you follow the AHA’s and other hospital lobbies’ script, it goes a little like this: But in came center-left think tank Third Way’s report, which fundamentally challenges these assumptions and consequently triggered the AHA’s visceral response above. Apparently, anyone questioning the hospitals’ playbook does not deserve a thoughtful response. There are a number of previous analyses that show that truly efficient hospitals can earn margin in government programs. Because commercial rates are higher, it stands to reason that the entire enterprise can be healthy. I read about the hospital inefficiency phenomenon in Marty Makary’s books – Uncontrollable and The Price We Pay. As