The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday finalized recommendations that Congress forgo increasing or reduce Medicare payment rates in 2018 for home health agencies, skilled nursing facili
The AHA today urged the Measure Applications Partnership to focus its 2017 recommendations for Medicare quality and pay-for-performance programs on measures that most optimize outcomes for patients
Americans who live in rural areas are more likely to die from heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease or stroke than their urban counterparts, according to a
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission today finalized its recommendation that would update payments for hospital inpatient and outpatient services in 2018 as outlined under current law, that is,
Only about 5% of adults in Medicaid expansion states who were hospitalized for substance use or mental health disorders in third-quarter 2015 lacked health insurance, down from 20% in 2013, accordi
Elaine Couture, R.N., executive vice president/chief executive for Providence Health & Services eastern Washington/Montana, will lead the AHA's Constituency Section for Metropolitan Hospitals a
The Senate voted 51 to 48 early Thursday to approve a budget resolution instructing House and Senate committees to begin work on legislation to repeal major portions of the Affordable Care Act.
The Food and Drug Administration today alerted health care providers and patients to safety concerns with the use of implantable infusion pumps in the magnetic resonance imaging environment, citing