Tax-exempt hospitals’ community benefit activities represented 9.67% of their total expenses for Tax Year 2011, the Internal Revenue Service said in a report recently submitted to Congress.
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The AHA today urged the Department of Veterans Affairs to improve the Veterans Choice Program to address “roadblocks” to veterans’ access to care and broader participation by non-
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Four national hospital rating systems for consumers vary widely in their results, according to a study reported today in Health Affairs.
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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases today launched a clinical trial to obtain safety and
The AHA’s Association for the Healthcare Environment is developing a certification curriculum for environmental services technicians that hospitals and other health care facilities can use to
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As Congress prepares to address a physician payment fix at the end of March, hospital leaders Feb.
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At a subcommittee hearing yesterday on the president’s fiscal year 2016 budget requ
Commenting yesterday on proposed criteria for selecting measures to include in a Hospital Compare star rating system, AHA encouraged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to consider usi
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