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Issues and Answers: an informational series for hospital leaders

• Implementing Health Care Reform: Challenges and Opportunities for Illinois Hospitals (August 2010 - password required)
• Program Integrity Provisions (June 2010)
• Timeline of Selected Key Events on Implementation of Health Care Reform Provisions, 2010-2015 (May 2010)
• Estimating the Coverage Impact of Federal Health Reform (May 2010)
  • Health Reform IHA Estimator Instructions
  • Health Reform IHA Estimator Model (Excel file - password required)
  • Audio: IHA Conference Call on Estimator (runs 26 minutes)
• Tax-Exempt Provisions of Health Reform (April 2010)

Advocacy

• IHA Comments Regarding IRS Request for Comments on Health Reform Tax Exemption

Resources/Tools

• IHA Resource Tool: Grant, Demo & Pilot Opportunities
  • Click here if you have Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (password required)
  • Click here if you have an older version of Microsoft Excel (password required)
• IHA PowerPoint Presentation for Internal Audiences (password required)
• IHA PowerPoint Presentation for External Audiences (password required)
  Note: Be sure to see the explanatory notes included with the slides, starting with slide #4 in the first presentation and slide #3 in the second presentation; if you cannot see the notes, go to "View" on the tool bar and click "Notes Page."
• IHA Summary of Key Rural Provisions in Health Care Reform (3/30/10)
• IHA Summary of Health Care Reform Legislation (PowerPoint presentation - 3/23/10)
• IHA Letter on Health Care Reform (State Journal Register, 3/23/10)
• Impact of Health Care Reform by Congressional District

Archive of Programs on Hospital-Physician Relations

• Clinical Integration: A Model for Uniting Hospitals and Physicians with Payors and Patients (held March 25, 2010)
  • Order form for Webinar CD
  • Program brochure
• Hospitalists and Your Hospital: Creating and Sustaining Success (held Sept. 25, 2008)
  • Order form for Webinar CD
  • Program brochure
• Physician-Hospital Relations Program Series: Earning Physician Loyalty - What Does It Take? (held May 16, 2007)
  • Order form for Webinar CD
  • Program brochure

Links to Other Resources

• AARP
• American Hospital Association
• Commonwealth Fund Review of Various Health Reform Proposals
• Congressional Republicans
• HHS Consumer Focused Health Care Website
• Kaiser Family Foundation: Health Reform
• National Conference of State Legislatures: Federal Health Care Reform
• National Governors Association: State Role in Delivery System Reform
• New York Times: Health Care Reform
• Reuters: Health Care Reform
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Reform.gov
• Washington Post: Health Care 2010
• White House: Health Reform