January 17, 2023 HAP Urges Pa. Leaders to Support Behavioral Health Pennsylvania’s elected leaders must take swift action to invest in the commonwealth’s behavioral health care system to ensure patients have timely access to care.
January 11, 2023 Shapiro Announces Key Health Appointments Governor-elect Josh Shapiro today announced nominations for five key health leadership positions in his administrative cabinet.
January 09, 2023 Top Priorities for Pennsylvania’s Health Care Providers Pennsylvania’s newly elected state and federal leaders have an important opportunity to advance health care across the commonwealth, especially to improve access to behavioral health.
December 30, 2022 HAP Year in Review: The Biggest Stories from 2022 This year saw plenty of new COVID-19 developments, but we saw several other important topics come to the forefront as well, including a growing focus on health care cybersecurity, the behavioral health crisis, hospitals’ financial strain, and the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
November 18, 2022 HAP President and CEO Andy Carter to Retire Andy Carter, president and CEO of The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) since 2012, today announced his plan to retire by June 30 of next year.
November 15, 2022 HAP Urges Lawmakers to Support Pa. Behavioral Health HAP and Pennsylvania’s health care community urged state lawmakers today to act quickly to allocate $100 million in one-time federal funding to support behavioral health.
November 10, 2022 KFF Analysis: The Issues that Mattered on Election Day Inflation and the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade were among the key issues on voters’ minds during the 2022 election, according to new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and the Associated Press.
November 09, 2022 5 Takeaways from Pennsylvania’s Midterm Election Another Election Day marks a period of transition for Pennsylvania, with a new slate of elected officials set to take top positions in Harrisburg and Washington in January.
October 28, 2022 The Ins and Outs of Mail-In Ballots If you’re interested in receiving a mail-in ballot, the deadline to apply is coming soon.
October 27, 2022 What to Know: Pa. Lawmakers Pass Prior Authorization Reform Pennsylvania lawmakers have passed critical legislation to reform the prior authorization process and support patients’ timely access to care.