Connecticut hospitals invested $1.5 billion in community benefit initiatives in 2014, according to a new
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will add about 1,900 diagnosis codes and 3,651 hospital inpatient procedure codes to the ICD-10 codin
The Health Resources and Services Administration today awarded $94 million in grants to 271
About 39% of the 12.7 million Americans who signed up or were automatically enrolled in a 2016 health plan during open enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplaces were new consumers, according
The New Hampshire House of Representatives this week voted to reauthorize the state’s Medicaid expansion alternative, which provides private health coverage to more than 48,000 low-income uni
The National Patient Safety Foundation will host a Patient Safety Awareness Week Twitter
The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is offering a limited number of seats in its 2016 examiner preparation course.
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new Vital Signs report focused on the imp
Testifying yesterday at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing o
The Senate today voted 94-1 to approve the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (S. 524), bipartisan legislation to address the nation’s opioid epidemic.
Death rates continue to decline for all cancers combined and for most cancer sites for men and women of all major racial and ethnic groups, according to the latest
Delaware hospitals contributed more than $275 million in community benefits to the state in fiscal year 2014, an increase of more than $9 million since FY 2011, according to a new report by the Del
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released
Spending on prescription drugs rose by 12.6% in 2014 and is projected to rise by an average 7.3% annually through 2018, according to a new
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released a proposed rule to t
The Department of Health and Human Services is arranging and funding
The National Fire Protection Association is accepting comments through May 16 on proposed revisions to its Life Safety Code and Health Care Facilities Code for 2018.
A recent proposal that calls for reducing the benefits of the 340B Drug Pricing Program to curb rapidly rising prescription drug costs is “misguided,” writes AHA Executive Vice President Tom Nickel