Professional Affairs Healthcare Advisory Committee

Overview

American Specialty Health (ASH) has implemented a Professional Affairs Health Care Advisory Committee (PAHAC) that includes volunteer representatives from professional societies, the academic institutions and practicing providers. ASH has invited national and state professional associations, academic institutions as well as other professional societies to submit recommendations for representing their specific constituencies to the PAHAC. ASH solicits and facilitates comment and input from such providers, associations, colleges, and societies and will consider such input when developing policy and clinical guidelines. The PAHAC will be the vehicle for societies to voice input for consideration.

The PAHAC is implemented in addition to the currently active ASH committees (Corporate Quality Oversight Committee, Clinical Provider Review Committee, Provider Quality and Credentialing Committee, Administrative Review Committee, Executive Review Committee, Termination Hearing Panel and Professional Affairs Work Group) that already include practicing providers as regular standing members.

In addition to regularly scheduled PAHAC meetings, the members will be invited observers and will be allowed to present professional opinion as a part of the ASH Technology assessment consensus process.

Meeting Action Logs & Minutes

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