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AHA Honors 2016 Award Winners

At last week’s AHA Annual Membership Meeting, the association recognized people and organizations that improve America’s health care.
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Federal judge rejects FTC challenge of PA health systems merger

A federal district judge yesterday rejected a Federal Trade Commission challenge of a proposed merger between Penn State Hershey Medical Center and PinnacleHealth System, denying the agency’s
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Report: Louisiana hospitals vital to state's economy

Louisiana hospitals generate more than $31.6 billion annually in state business activity and directly employ more than 103,000 people, according to a
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AHA urges CMS to narrow scope of Part B Drug Payment Model

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed payment model for Medicare Part B drugs should not include hospitals, which “have little control over which drugs physicians p
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CMS issues rule to improve public Marketplace stability

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday released an interim final rule&nb
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Experts air proposals to rein in rising prescription drug prices

A panel of health care pharmaceutical experts May 3 offered a range of approaches to help rein in what all agreed is an unsustainable increase in prescription drug prices during an executive briefi
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Health plan consolidation raises serious concerns

The two major proposed mergers in the health insurance sector – Aetna-Humana and Anthem-Cigna – should trouble providers and consumers, because evidence suggests health plan consolidati
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CDC: Share of adults without usual place of care varies widely by state

About 17% of working-age adults lacked a usual place for medical care when surveyed in 2014, ranging from 3% in Vermont to 27% in Nevada, according to a new
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1.3 million seniors with severely impaired vision report falling in 2014

Almost half of seniors with severely impaired vision reported falling in 2014, compared with one in three seniors overall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Hospitals add 22,900 jobs in April

Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.45% in April to a seasonally adjusted 5,065,400 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics