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CMS Issues Proposed Rule for CY 2024 Medicare Advantage, Prescription Drug Plans
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Dec. 14 released its proposed Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program for Contract Year (CY) 2024. The proposed rule would increase oversight of Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and better align them with Traditional Medicare, address access gaps in behavioral health services and further streamline prior authorization processes, supplementing a separate proposal last week.
Baxter issues update on IV solution shortages
Baxter Healthcare Corp. Friday updated U.S. hospital customers on its efforts to address a critical shortage of intravenous solutions since Hurricane Maria impacted its manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico.
House Committees Advance Opioid Bills
The House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday approved 32 bills to address the opioid crisis, including 12 AHA-supported bills.
Final MACRA rule offers challenges, opportunities for hospitals, says AHA
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) final rule for Medicare’s new physician payment system offers both challen
Once Again, Care for Millions at Risk
Once again, health coverage for tens of millions of Americans is at risk. The Senate is considering yet another proposal, by Sens.
AHA seeks speedy Senate approval of Medicare SGR replacement legislation
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., last week vowed quick action on bipartisan legislation to replace the Medicare physician sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula when the Senate reconve
House lawmakers urge CMS to provide positive outpatient PPS update to hospitals
A bipartisan group of 95 House lawmakers earlier this week urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to scuttle its proposed payment cut for hospital outpatient services and prov
Thank you to our nation’s nurses: Always there, ready to care
During National Nurses Week, Robyn Begley, AHA Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer and CEO of AHA’s American Organization of Nurse Executives, talks about how from the bedside to the C-suite to the boardroom, nurses are critical partners in leading the transformation of health care across the care continuum.
Core Measures--Appropriate Care for Every Patient Every Time
The goal was to eliminate all variances in the clinical process measures to ensure that patients who present with one or more of the four diagnoses under core measures receive 100 percent appropria