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AHA News has launched news.aha.org, a new and improved website with the most important news that hospital and health system leaders need to know. The website includes breaking news on the latest legislative and regulatory developments impacting hospitals; features highlighting the many ways…
Maribeth McLaughlin R.N., chief nursing officer and vice president of patient care services at Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC in Pittsburgh, will lead the AHA's Constituency Section for Maternal and Child Health as 2015 chair of its governing council. Jim Shmerling, president and CEO of Children…
The U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut must review whether Medicare beneficiaries challenging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ use of observation status have a property interest under the federal Due Process Clause in being admitted to their hospitals as…
States last March reported enrolling more than 3.2 million newly eligible adults in Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act’s new adult eligibility group, according to data released today by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
A study released yesterday by the Urban Institute looks at who would lose health insurance if the Supreme Court decides for the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell, who seek to limit subsidies under the Affordable Care Act to states that set up their own health insurance marketplaces.
U.S. hospitals provided $46.4 billion in uncompensated care in 2013, according to the latest data from the AHA's Annual Survey of Hospitals. That's $500 million more than in 2012. The total includes "bad debt" (services for which hospitals anticipated but did not receive payment) and charity…
AHA members and others can access a webcast on the association's 2015 Environmental Scan, which identifies emerging trends to help hospital and health care leaders plan strategically. The annual Scan serves as the foundation of the AHA’s rolling three-year strategic plan. Topics include…
The AHA has extended to Jan. 30 the deadline for all hospitals to submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey. The free web-based survey helps AHA gauge the impact of Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor program on hospitals and advocate for needed changes. For more information on the RACTrac…
Wright Lassiter III, president of Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, will lead the AHA's Section for Metropolitan Hospitals as 2015 chair of its governing council. He also serves on the executive committee of the California Hospital Association and America's Essential Hospitals boards. Michael…
AHA supports permanently replacing the Medicare sustainable growth rate for physician payment, but cannot support any proposal to fix the physician payment problem at the expense of funding for services provided by other caregivers, AHA President and CEO Rich Umbdenstock told the House Energy and…