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CMS to streamline survey process for psychiatric hospitals
Beginning in March, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will implement a streamlined survey and certification process for psychiatric hospitals, the agency announced today.
CDC updates discharge planning guidance for hospitalized EVALI patients
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently updated its discharge planning guidance for clinicians treating patients hospitalized with suspected vaping-associated lung injury.
Optimizing Precision Care Delivery with Machine Learning
Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group, recently invested $16 million in Health at Scale, a California-based startup using machine learning to help risk-bearing entities determine the highest-quality provider and hospital at the lowest cost. Health at Scale offers a suite of services, including building preferred-provider networks of physicians and facilities optimized for the predicted needs of individual members within large and complex populations. It also designs broad and narrow networks for populations and member groups. The company serves payers, health systems and self-insured employers.
Chair File: Starting a New Journey to Advance Health in America
Health care professionals are driven by heart. They are energized by a challenge to improve the lives of others. And they are dedicated to always doing what’s best for our patients. This mission has fueled me throughout my career, and it’s the reason I’m looking forward to working with all of you during my year as chair of the AHA Board of Trustees.
GAO: HRSA should increase oversight of nongovernmental 340B hospitals
The Health Resources and Services Administration should increase its oversight of private nonprofit hospitals that participate in the 340B drug savings program to ensure they meet eligibility requirements, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released today.
Kansas pursues Medicaid expansion, Maine insurance market changes
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has reached agreement with Senate Republicans on a bipartisan proposal to expand Medicaid eligibility to low-income uninsured adults by 2021.
Study: Camden model does not appear to reduce readmission rates
A program created by the Camden (N.J.) Coalition of Healthcare Providers to coordinate outpatient care and social services for patients with complex medical and social needs after discharge from the hospital does not significantly reduce readmission rates, according to a randomized, controlled trial reported this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.
AHA blog highlights weaknesses in hospital consolidation study
A study on hospital mergers and quality described in a recent article in The Wall Street Journal uses data that is not sufficiently up to date and therefore of minimal value for assessing the benefits of hospital mergers.
Hospitals add 8,800 jobs in December
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.17% in December to a seasonally adjusted 5,297,100 people.
Perspective: We care, we vote — making our voice heard in 2020
Election Day is fewer than 10 months away so get ready, get connected and get involved.