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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has distributed about $2.5 million in laboratory supplies and equipment to enhance the nation’s capacity to test for Zika virus, the agency announced today. Forty-three states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and nine Department of…
Changes to the Medicare Post-Acute Care Value-Based Purchasing Act (H.R. 3298) do not go far enough to address the underlying problems with the legislation, AHA today told the bill’s sponsors, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI).
As urged by the AHA, X12 voted last night on a solution for reporting the new unique device identifier on health care claims that will allow tracking of medical devices for safety reasons, while minimizing disruptions to automated claims processing.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee today held a hearing on laboratory developed tests, which are developed, validated and performed by individual laboratories, including hospital laboratories, when commercial diagnostic tests do not exist or meet clinical needs.
The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care today kicked off a two-day summit focused on the future of advanced illness care. Addressing attendees, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack called for policy changes to help palliative care initiatives.
A DC federal court trial judge today denied the government’s request to delay further proceedings in a case brought by the AHA and three hospital organizations to compel the Department of Health and Human Services to meet its congressionally mandated deadlines for reviewing Medicare…
Average Medicare payments for a lower extremity joint replacement hospitalization and 90-day post-discharge period declined $1,166 more for hospitals participating in the first 21 months of the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative than for comparison hospitals that did not participate,…
Federal agencies will participate this week in more than 250 events as part of Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic Awareness Week, proclaimed Friday by President Obama to raise awareness about the prescription opioid and heroin epidemic.
The National Academy of Medicine today released discussion papers for its Vital Directions for Health and Health Care initiative, which will provide guidance on priorities for health and health care to the incoming administration and other health care leaders and policymakers. The papers will…
The Florida Department of Health has expanded the area of mosquito-born Zika virus transmission in Miami Beach to about 4.5 square miles, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Saturday. “CDC is coordinating closely with Florida officials and providing technical support…