The AHA yesterday urged the Internal Revenue Service to publish guidance affirming that hospitals may participate in accountable care organizations without generating a tax cost or incurring “the c
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The House today agreed to go to conference with the Senate on the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (S.
Medicare patients admitted to critical access hospitals for common surgical procedures are no more likely to die within 30 days than similar patients at other hospitals and have lower complication
Hospitals, including those participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program, are the true safety-net, not the pharmaceutical industry with its “skyrocketing prescription drug prices and huge profits,
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) today introduced legislation t
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights Friday issued a fi
African-American children were more than twice as likely as white children to be readmitted to an urban children’s hospital for asthma between August 2010 and October 2011, with socioeconomic and o
People who exercise more may be less likely to get 13 types of cancers, according to a study publis
Fewer than 1% of rural Medicare beneficiaries received a telemedicine visit in 2013, according to a study&nb
Hospital and health system leaders are invited to apply through June 1 for the AHA’s Health Care System Transformation Fellowship.
President Obama did not have the authority to pay cost-sharing reductions to low-income enrollees in health insurance plans purchased on an exchange, a federal district court judge
The House of Representatives last night approved seven AHA-supported bills as part of its legisl
The AHA supports the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ efforts to explore the feasibility of global budget payment programs in geographically defined communities, the association
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has temporarily paused two-midnight patient status reviews to improve standardization across the program, the agency last week
In an open letter on the opioid epidemic published yesterday in the Huffingt
The focus of this year’s National Nurses Week, which concludes today, is “Culture of Safety: It Starts With You.” In an AHASTAT
The AHA May 11 submitted to the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee several overarching recommendations for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment Models (APM)