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Medicare updates national coverage policy for heart procedure

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday finalized its decision to update Medicare’s national coverage policy for hospitals and physicians offering a transcatheter aortic valve replacement program to treat aortic stenosis.
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CMS issues program integrity guidance to state Medicaid agencies

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week issued guidance outlining certain assurances that state Medicaid agencies should make “to ensure that program resources are reserved for those who meet eligibility requirements.”
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AHA Comments to CMS on the Inpatient PPS FY 2020 Proposed Rule

AHA comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) hospital inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule for fiscal year (FY) 2020.
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Chairman’s File podcast: Health care without an address

This weekend, I was pleased to participate in a robust, AHA-sponsored discussion as part of the Aspen Ideas: Health Festival on how hospitals and health systems are adapting to this new push beyond our traditional boundaries, and what this shift means for affordability, patient outcomes and the care experience.
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Reversing MetS to Improve Employee Health and Reduce Costs

Reversing MetS to Improve Employee Health and Reduce Costs
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Accelerating a Hospital Pharmacy to Peak Performance

Accelerating a Hospital Pharmacy to Peak Performance
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AHA comments on revised Lower Health Care Costs Act

The AHA today submitted comments on the revised version of the Lower Health Care Costs Act (S. 1895), legislation to prevent surprise medical bills, reduce prescription drug prices, improve transparency in health care, invest in public health and improve health information exchange.
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Perspective: Integrating behavioral health to improve patient outcomes

Integrating behavioral health services to treat the whole patient across the continuum of care is vital to improving health in our communities — and it’s just one of the many ways hospitals and health systems are working to advance health in America.
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AHA comments on potential change to poverty measure inflation factor

The AHA today urged the Office of Management and Budget to continue using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in making annual adjustments to the Official Poverty Measure.
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Study: Ark. Medicaid work requirement fails to increase employment

Thousands of adults in Arkansas lost insurance coverage in the first six months after Medicaid work requirements were implemented, with no change in employment.