“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,” writes AHA’s Bharath Krishnamurthy, director of health analytics and policy, and Aaron Wesolowski, vice president of research strategy and policy communications. “The pushback would be tremendous, yet that is the reality for hospitals and health systems operating in the U.S.” READ MORE

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