The AHA yesterday asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Department of the Treasury to “take swift and decisive action” to protect consumers from limited-benefit pla
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The AHA yesterday urged the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics to adopt a proposed electronic transaction standard for claims attachments, but with certain conditions to help ensure
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted a Frequently Asked Question clarifying what
Uncompensated care costs at Missouri hospitals increased 469% between 2004 and 2014, according to the Missouri Hospital Association’s annual
Heeding concerns raised by the AHA and others, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Feb.
In a letter Friday to Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and its health subcomm
The Core Quality Measures Collaborative, a public-private effort to align and simplify quality measures for physicians and other clinicians, has reached consensus on core quality measures for certa
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will begin distributing in March an anticipated $7.7 billion in reinsurance payments for the 2015 benefit year, the agency
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education today launched an
In a study published online this week in JAMA Pediatrics, adjusting for social determinants of heal
As urged by AHA, states may immediately use alternative ways to document that a critical access hospital is a “necessary provider,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today
Hospitals will not be able to submit fourth-quarter 2015 data to the hospital inpatient and outpatient quality reporting programs until early to mid-March because the Health Care Quality Informatio
Flu-related hospitalizations are nearly twice as common in high-poverty areas as in low-poverty areas, according to a new
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Feb.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a final rule implement
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today extended to March 11 the deadline for hospitals and eligible professionals to
The Senate Judiciary Committee today amended and approved by voice vote two bipartisan bills aimed at stemming the opioid epidemic.
The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday named seven new members to the
Lynn Smith, auxilian at CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs (AR), will chair the AHA's 2016 Committee on Volunteers.