Insights and Analysis Shaping Healthcare Policy
Explore in-depth reports, policy briefs, and research from HLC that highlight key healthcare challenges and private-sector solutions. Here you can gain insights into trends, data, and recommendations shaping federal healthcare policy and industry-wide innovation.
Setting the Record Straight: The Facts Behind MedPAC’s Misleading Cost Analysis of Medicare Advantage
Our latest report challenges the accuracy of recent MA spending estimates by MedPAC, exposing critical flaws in the Commission’s revised methodology underpinning its skewed estimates, and calls for greater transparency in evaluating the MA program.
Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Defining Private and Public Sector Responsibility
As life-threatening and financially crippling cyberattacks increase, a new report from HLC and HLC’s Confidentiality Coalition, proposes a collaborative public-private framework to safeguard the healthcare system. Co-authored by Manatt, Phelps & Phi…
Analysis of CMMI Model Costs, Quality Performance, and Transparency
A new Avalere Health analysis commissioned by HLC evaluates the performance of 18 Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI/Center) payment models revealing opportunities to further improve patient outcomes and deliver savings.
Addressing Drivers of Health Through Public-Private Partnerships
HLC convened stakeholders for an event entitled, Helping Patients and Communities: Opportunities to Improve Health. Thought leaders representing companies and non-profit organizations, academia, and government discussed existing innovations and cons…
Proposed Changes to Best Price Could Shift Market Dynamics for Stakeholders
A proposal by the Biden Administration to change how prescription drug rebates are calculated in the Medicaid program could have ripple effects that could affect drug pricing and accessibility throughout multiple markets, according to this analysis …
Achieving the Promise of Value-Based Care for All
This joint report, released with HLC members AdventHealth and Wellvana, offers concrete recommendations for advancing whole-person, prevention-focused well care.
Framework for Disaster Preparedness and Response: Updated
This report includes a comprehensive set of immediate actions to strengthen the United States’ ability to leverage biomedical innovations and healthcare capabilities to anticipate and respond to public health emergencies, from pandemics to natural d…
Disaster Readiness and Data Sharing Initiative
HLC members and industry leaders produced a series of planned actions that will ensure improved sharing of and access to critical healthcare data during all types of public health emergencies including natural disasters, infectious disease outbreaks…
Telehealth: Expanding the Boundaries of Patient-centric Care
HLC members have long delved into telehealth, applying this means of delivering medical care and services across distances in ways that bring value to modern medicine. This digest relates experiences, lessons learned, and insights HLC members have s…
American Health Law Association/Healthcare Leadership Council Sample Interoperability Contract Language
HLC-BPC Interoperability Report Advancing Interoperability, Information Sharing
This report from HLC and the Bipartisan Policy Center recommends public and private sector actions that will advance health information technology (IT) interoperability, giving providers easier access to patients’ clinical data and empowering indivi…
Optimizing Healthcare for High-Need Patients: A Playbook
The comprehensive set of solutions illustrates how deeply intertwined social determinants and healthcare outcomes are, and the impact that can be achieved by addressing the former.
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With a unified voice spanning the entire healthcare continuum, HLC is driving meaningful policy change to enhance the future of the U.S. healthcare system.
