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The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center yesterday discharged in good condition the American health car
Physicians and teaching hospitals may review and dispute 2014 payments reported to the Open Payments program for a 45-day period that began April 6, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Senior health care leaders may apply through June 1 to participate in the next AHA Health Care Transformation Fellowship, a nine-month program designed to give participants knowledge, tools and con
The AHA encourages all hospitals to submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey by April 17.
National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Richard Griffin Jr.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute this week anno
Cancer mortality rates tend to be lower and improve more in countries that spend more on cancer care, according to a
The American health care worker being treated for Ebola virus disease at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD, has improved from fair to good condition, NIH
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today alerted U.S.
The AHA on May 4 will present four Hospital Awards for Volunteer Excellence, recognizing extraordinary hospital volunteer programs for their positive impact on patients, hospitals, health systems a
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today ann
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late this afternoon issued a proposed rule
Requiring critical access hospitals that are less than 15 miles from another hospital to revert to the hospital prospective payment system would generate modest savings for Medicare but likely be d
States expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act are realizing savings and revenue gains as a result, according to a
The Connecticut Hospital Association testified today against state legislation proposed by Gov.
Thursday is National Alcohol Screening Day, sponsored annually by Screening for Mental Health Inc. to bring attention to the needs of those with alcohol use disorders and their families.
The AHA today expressed concern that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s “roadmap” to achieve nationwide interoperability “is not sufficiently grounded in an
About half of the nation’s more than 5,000 hospital laboratories were reporting notifiable conditions to public health agencies using electronic communications protocols as of last April, acc
International travelers are bringing a multidrug-resistant intestinal illness to the United States, according to a new