The Maryland Hospital Association will receive the 2016 Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership for its work to improve health care quality, AHA announced today.
Orlando (FL) Regional Medical Center treated 44 victims from a mass shooting at a gay nightclub that left 53 injured and 50 dead, including the shooter.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should increase outreach, education and guidance to promote electronic clinical quality measures reporting and reduce the burden on hospitals, accor
Hospitals, critical access hospitals and eligible professionals who did not achieve meaningful use in the Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program for the 2015 reporting period can apply
The Department of Health and Human Services should take certain steps to reduce the number of Medicare appeals and strengthen oversight of the Medicare fee-for-service appeals process, the Governme
The Senate Appropriations Committee today voted 29-1 to approve bipartisan legislation that would provide $161.9 billion in base discretionary funding for the departments of Labor, Health and Human
The Senate this week approved legislation allowing public and nonprofit skilled nursing facilities to apply for support from the Universal Service Fund’s Rural Health Care Program, which provides f
The AHA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) June 7 issued a new patient education resource on prescription opioids that outlines e
The share of mental health treatment expenditures financed by private insurance, Medicare and Medicaid increased from 44% in 1986 to 68% in 2014, according to a