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The Alliance for Health Policy is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to helping policymakers and the public better understand health policy, the root of the nation’s health care issues, and the trade-offs posed by various proposals for change.
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Signature Series
Courageous Conversations. Innovative Events.
The annual Signature Series addresses challenging issues in health policy by convening cross-sector dialogue with experts in both policy and practice. Together, we critically examine and identify what’s at stake, as well as key areas of opportunity.
This year’s theme focuses on the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in health care and health policy.
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Public Briefing Health care system practices have spurred a surprise billing epidemic. Surprise out-of-network billing, or balance billing, often occurs when patients with commercial insurance seek care from an entity covered by their health plan, but are unwittingly treated by an out-of-network provider. Because there is no negotiated rate between the provider and health plan, […]
Public Briefing This briefing highlighted policy options to promote health care coverage and affordability through the individual health insurance market. Our panel discussed trends in commercial health insurance enrollment and affordability. Most people in the United States under age 65 purchase health care coverage through commercial insurers—about nine percent purchase coverage through state exchanges and […]
Public Briefing Rates of maternal mortality are on the rise in the United States, with black women dying from pregnancy-related causes at three to four times the rate of white women. Experts agree that policies to reduce maternal mortality across the United States and eliminate these racial disparities must be multifaceted. This briefing […]
Public Half-Day Summit This first topic examined the impact of nonmedical drivers of health-often called “social determinants of health”, on patients and the health system. It has become increasingly clear that efforts to improve quality, lower costs, and enhance patient satisfaction cannot succeed without addressing socio-economic status and nonmedical drivers of health such as housing, […]
Public Webinar Patents are an important driver of prescription drug innovation. Recently, manufacturer practices under the current patent system have come under scrutiny for blocking or delaying the entry of generic or biosimilar drugs into the market. The development of novel therapies plays a critical role in treating, and in some cases eradicating, debilitating and […]
Public Briefing It’s no secret that the practice of medicine is complex. Comparative effectiveness research (CER) has offered an approach to evaluate the outcomes of different health care methods and identify which treatments matter most to patients. Comparative effectiveness research has the potential to inform broader health care policy conversations on value, costs, and delivery […]