Spencer Johnson, who led the Michigan Health & Hospital Association for more than 30 years and was a champion for hospitals and patients, died Nov. 7. He was 76.
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by Brian Gragnolati
Our nation’s freedom is safeguarded by our brave women and men in uniform, who willingly risk their lives for love of country and ask nothing in return except for the chance, when the time comes, to successfully return to civilian life.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday discussed how health care provider consolidation affects prices, costs and Medicare payments, among other areas.
The Food and Drug Administration should study potential alternatives to ethylene oxide for sterilizing medical devices, but a solution could be at least a decade away, experts told an FDA advisory panel at a meeting this week on the issue.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today identified vitamin E acetate as a “potential chemical of concern” in biologic samples from patients with vaping-associated lung injuries.
AHA Chair-elect Melinda Estes, M.D., president and CEO of Saint Luke’s Health System in Kansas City, gave a keynote today at the 43rd World Hospital Congress of the International Hospital Federation in Oman.
Crain’s Chicago Business this week named Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA’s The Value Initiative, to its list of Notable Women in Health Care.
by Rick Pollack
From all of us here at the AHA, thank you to every veteran who has defended our country … and our freedom.
The AHA, Association of American Medical Colleges and several member hospitals intend to immediately request that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia enforce its September ruling vacating a CMS rule reducing payments for hospital outpatient services provided in off-campus provider-based departments.
The AHA this week encouraged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to standardize certain prior authorization processes to reduce administrative burden, and improve how it ensures that beneficiaries receive access to the services they need.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday released guidance for state Medicaid agencies implementing Section 5052 of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act of 2018.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is holding certain skilled nursing facility claims for inpatient and swing-bed services subject to the new SNF patient-driven payment model, which took effect Oct. 1.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit this week reversed a district court ruling that permanently barred the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from including private insurance and Medicare payments when calculating the Medicaid shortfall component of the hospital-specific limit on disproportionate share hospital payments.
The AHA and American College of Healthcare Executives today led a joint session at the World Hospital Congress of the International Hospital Federation in Oman on how American hospital and health system leaders respond to natural disasters, crises and workplace violence and how to build resilience.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a Nov. 14 call for clinical diagnostic laboratories, including hospital outreach laboratories, on reporting data for the Clinical Diagnostic Test Payment System in 2020.
by Andy Shin
In this blog, Andy Shin, chief operating officer of the AHA Center for Health Innovation, discusses an ecosystem approach to health care transformation.
A federal judge in New York today voided the Department of Health and Human Services’ 2019 final rule concerning certain statutory conscience rights in health care on lack of statutory authority and constitutional grounds.
More than 177,000 people selected a 2020 health plan through HealthCare.gov Nov. 1-2, the first two days of open enrollment, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today.
The National Quality Forum’s Hospital Quality Star Rating Summit today released recommendations to improve the transparency, fairness and usefulness of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings.
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved the first test to use next generation sequencing technology to detect HIV drug-resistance mutations in patients taking or about to start antiviral therapy.