American Hospital Association April 17, 2024
Imagine if the government required health insurance and drug companies to account for every dollar they spent, audit those data, and publicly report those numbers. The pushback would be tremendous, yet that is the reality for hospitals and health systems operating in the U.S.
The complexity and volume of data reporting required from hospitals and health systems is far greater than any other entity in the health care sector. These data serve a range of purposes and are reported to a variety of federal and state governmental agencies, regularly audited and generally made public for scrutiny by policymakers, researchers, and patients, alike. However, hospitals also share data with a range of other organizations for a variety of purposes, including credit...
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