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Lines Redrawn in Battle for Primary Relationships with Patients
Increasingly, providers are exploring partnerships with best-in-class hospitals as they hone their own service lines in areas where they excel. Some are also looking to direct contracting with major employers as a strategy to improve value, access, quality and cost management. And some are working with technology companies or partnering with payers on developing predictive analytics.
Inpatient Psychiatric Facility PPS: FY 2022 Final Rule
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) July 29 issued its final rule for the inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) prospective payment system (PPS) for fiscal year (FY) 2022.
Health care leaders urge Congress to address shortage of critical drugs
Drug shortages threaten the quality of patient care, narrow treatment options and often result in the use of potentially less effective alternative medications, hospital and health system leaders said at a briefing today on Capitol Hill.
Implementing the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist: A Model for Future Perioperative Initiatives
In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conducted a two-week trial of the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist in the main OR.
AHA, others call for Medicaid DSH cut delay, extension of rural programs
National hospital organizations, including the AHA, today urged Congress to include in the short-term continuing resolution under consideration this week a two-year delay in Medicaid disproportionate share hospital cuts.
Throwback Thursday: First Person Oral History with Elliott C. Roberts, Sr.
On Thursdays, we highlight an oral history featuring a health care leader who shaped the past and laid the foundation for the future.
Confronting New Challenges
Hospitals and hospital workers stepping up to meet emerging health care challenges is nothing new. This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and World Health Organization sounded th
Chair File: Team Training Improves Patient Safety
Next week, June 20-22, the AHA is hosting a Team Training National Conference in San Diego for health care organizations to improve patient safety by successfully implementing and sustaining TeamSTEPPS, an evidence-based set of teamwork tools. Hospitals and health systems across the U.S. have used TeamSTEPPS to improve quality and safety.
Perspective: The Most Precious Gift
Each April, the AHA joins Donate Life America, the Health Resources and Services Administration and others in highlighting the important role of organ, eye and tissue donation in providing hope and health.
AHA Urges CMS to Address Prior Authorization Issues Affecting Medicare Advantage Patients
The AHA urges the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to revise and reissue recent proposed regulations streamlining prior authorization requirements within certain coverage programs; consider additional regulations to limit care delays; and conduct oversight and enforcement for plans who have demonstrated problematic prior authorization usage in the past.