Key Issues
HLC and its members develop and advance innovative solutions that improve our nation’s health and enhance access to high-quality care.
On behalf of our members, HLC actively partners with policymakers to adopt reforms that transform patient-centered care, promote private sector investment and ingenuity, and leverage disruptive megatrends.
Transforming Access to Patient-Centered Care
HLC promotes access to affordable value-based coverage that rewards quality, patient-centered care, and health outcomes.
Value-Based Care
HLC champions private sector value-based care initiatives and supports federal efforts to drive greater efficiencies in patient care delivery, reduce unnecessary costs, reward collaborative treatment, encourage coordinated care, and improve individuals’ overall health.
Medicare Advantage
HLC is committed to improving the public-private partnership while meeting the needs of beneficiaries and maintaining financial sustainability.
Defining Industry Response to Disruptive Megatrends
HLC and our members are informing the development of federal cybersecurity legislation and regulations to strengthen protections for patients and advance opportunities to realize artificial intelligence’s potential in healthcare.
Cybersecurity
HLC is compiling input from cyber experts across the healthcare industry to inform the development of legislation and regulations to strengthen federal cybersecurity. Our efforts help define appropriate incident reporting and provide restoration and resiliency recommendations.
Artificial Intelligence
HLC is identifying barriers, opportunities, and risks with private sector leaders to shape policy and to unleash the potential of AI to improve health.
Promoting Private Sector Investment and Ingenuity
HLC is advancing policies and initiatives to promote robust competition within the healthcare market and further encourage investments necessary to drive innovation.
IRA Implementation
HLC counters efforts to expand government price controls on the private sector by advancing policies that foster ongoing robust scientific research and development necessary to produce more affordable, accessible, and cutting-edge treatments, therapies, and cures.
Competition
By advocating for balanced antitrust regulations and thoughtful oversight, HLC aims to ensure and protect appropriate, market-based business transactions.
