The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released an update to its draft legislation to accele
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The health care sector added 226,000 jobs over the past six months, the largest increase in at least 25 years, and now employs more than 15 million, according to the latest
The AHA’s Physician Leadership Forum will host a webinar May 20 on the changing health care landscape and new ways to engage consumers. During the complimentary webinar, at 2:30 p.m.
A day after legislation to renew expired trade promotion authority failed to gain the 60 votes needed to clear a procedural hurdle, Senate leaders May 13 reached agreement to move forward on the pa
A package of trade bills that would have imposed additional sequestration cuts on Medicare was blocked today in the Senate, where it failed to gain the 60 votes needed to clear a procedural hurdle.
The AHA supports the intent of draft legislation to accelerate and improve the discovery, development and delivery of new cures and treatments for patients, but would strongly object to any reducti
A Pennsylvania court Wednesday granted summary judgment to a dozen hospitals that sued health insurer Highmark Inc. for passing on its 2% Medicare payment cut under federal sequestration.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday issued guidance on annual cost
A new guide by the AHA’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative and Leavitt Partners outlines the pot
The most expensive 5% of enrollees accounted for almost half of annual Medicaid expenditures for Medicaid-only enrollees in fiscal years 2009 through 2011, according to a
The Health Resources and Services Administration Friday published a final rule allowing the Organ Pr
The World Health Organization Saturday declared Liberia free of Ebola virus transmissio
An AHA ad appearing this week in Capitol Hill publications highlights the many ways hospitals are working and reaching beyond their
Indiana hospitals participating in the Health Research & Educational Trust’s Hospital Engagement Network improved care for patients while saving an estimated $22.3 million in health care
The AHA Career Center is now the Health Career Center.
This is National Hospital Week, a time for hospitals to celebrate the employees, volunteers and others that contribute to their collective work.
An estimated 4.3 million people would gain health coverage in 2016 if the 21 states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act were to do so, according to an updated
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a 29-minute video on estimating the impact of the transi
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.24% in April to a seasonally adjusted 4,858,600 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics