"No single organization can tackle this immense problem alone," said Linda Kloss, MA, RHIA, CEO, AHIMA. "We're involving stakeholders in every category to take a high level look at the problems of complexity across the healthcare spectrum."

"Complexity and duplication of effort frustrates all of us," said Douglas E. Henley,MD, FAAFP, executive vice president, AAFP. "We hope to make incremental but significant changes to alleviate some of the dissatisfaction arising from our current, broken health care financing system."


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About HASC

The Healthcare Administrative Simplification Coalition was organized by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA). It is committed to reducing the administrative costs and complexity of health care. Other members of the coalition include the nation's leading physician and hospital organizations, health and benefits plans, employers, government agencies and other groups sharing the coalition's goals. Positions taken by the coalition are determined by majority vote and do not necessarily represent the position of all of its members.

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