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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Sept. 29 awarded $347 million in contracts to 16 organizations, including the AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), to continue efforts to reduce hospital- acquired conditions and readmissions in the Medicare program.
The AHA agrees with the principles underlying the proposed cardiac bundled payment model, but the proposed rule raises serious concerns about the pace of payment reform, AHA told the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in comments submitted today. “Hospitals strongly support CMS…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released an updated interim plan for responding to locally acquired cases of Zika virus infection in the continental U.S. and Hawaii.
The Department of Health and Human Services lacks authority to pay health insurance issuers before the Treasury when allocating payments in the transitional reinsurance program, according to an opinion issued yesterday by the Government Accountability Office.
Hospitals that serve predominantly low-income, medically-underserved individuals may submit an application to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services through Oct. 15 to add their facility to the Essential Community Provider list for the 2018 Health Insurance Marketplaces.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today awarded $347 million in contracts to 16 organizations, including the AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust, to continue efforts to reduce hospital-acquired conditions and readmissions in the Medicare program. The Hospital…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday announced it will again allow eligible hospitals to settle inpatient status claims under appeal, adding that details will be released soon.
President Obama today signed legislation funding federal programs through Dec. 9 and providing $1.1 billion in emergency funding for the Department of Health and Human Services and other agencies to combat Zika. The measure passed the House and Senate yesterday. The compromise package to…
Sens. Pat Roberts (R-KS), John Barrasso (R-WY), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) and Al Franken (D-MN) last night introduced the Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act (R-HoPE), AHA-supported legislation that would extend critical rural provisions that have expired or are set to expire and implement new…
The AHA today expressed support for the Closing Loopholes for Orphan Drugs Act (H.R. 6174), bipartisan legislation that would limit the “orphan drug” exclusion for 340B Drug Pricing Program rural and cancer hospitals.