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Legislation to revamp Medicare’s telehealth legislation should address several statutory restrictions that stand in the way of modernizing coverage and payment for telehealth services, the AHA last week told a congressional working group that recently circulated a draft proposal.
In a Jan.…
President Obama’s call for deep funding cuts to hospital care “are bad medicine for our nation’s seniors and other vulnerable patients,” AHA President and CEO Rich Umbdenstock said in a Feb. 2 statement following release of the president’s fiscal year (FY) 2016 budget…
The AHA and nine other national hospital groups today urged Congress to oppose any additional Medicare and Medicaid cuts to payments for hospital services to offset the cost of resolving the Sustainable Growth Rate for Medicare physician payment.
Rep. Don Young (R-AK) introduced late yesterday the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Extension Act (H.R. 672), AHA-supported legislation that would extend the demonstration for five years. The program enables rural hospitals with fewer than 51 acute-care beds to test the feasibility of cost-…
The share of working adults without insurance fell 25% between September 2013 and September 2014 (to 10.2%), with the largest gains in rural areas and states that expanded Medicaid, according to recent data from the Urban Institute’s Health Reform Monitoring Survey.
Nearly all unplanned readmissions after surgery are associated with new postoperative complications that surface after discharge, according to a study of 346 hospitals participating in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program in 2012, published yesterday…
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology yesterday announced $36 million in funding to accelerate the adoption and use of health information exchange, train health care workers to use new health information technologies, and address health challenges at the…
The latest Blue Ribbon Panel Report, part of the monograph series from the AHA’s Center for Healthcare Governance, shares findings from a study of the governance structure and practices of physician organizations as they relate to clinical integration. It also includes information about other…
Stuart Buttlaire, regional director of inpatient psychiatry and continuing care for Kaiser Permanente Northern California in Oakland, is 2015 chair of the AHA's Constituency Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services. He has served on numerous national quality panels, most recently…
Essentia Health, an integrated health care delivery system based in Duluth, Minn., provides telehealth services to patients at 26 of its roughly 80 rural health clinics, small rural hospitals and long-term care facilities in Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin and Iowa. Its goal is to provide…