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Hospitals with different issues and concerns find something they like in the House-passed Helping Hospitals to Improve Patient Care Act, H.R. 5273 – and hope the Senate will make consideration of the bill a priority. But an abbreviated election-year legislative calendar could possibly push…
The AHA Wednesday expressed “extreme dismay” with the provisions for new off-campus hospital outpatient departments contained in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) outpatient prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule for 2017.
Brainy Camps is a funny name. But this summer camp is serious about teaching kids with special needs to live wisely.Brainy Camps does more than allow children to experience bunk beds and rope courses every summer. It has helped children with chronic illness learn how to control their disease by…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today proposed to update hospital outpatient prospective payment system rates by 1.55% in calendar year 2017 compared to CY 2016.
Sens. John Thune (R-SD) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) today introduced AHA-supported legislation (S. 3129) to extend through calendar year 2016 the enforcement moratorium on direct supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services provided in critical access hospitals and rural prospective…
Starting in fiscal year 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposes to no longer use the results from three pain management questions in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey in determining hospitals’ value-based purchasing program scores,…
The Commission on Care today submitted to the president its recommendations for transforming veteran’s health care. The Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 established the commission to examine veterans’ access to Department of Veterans Affairs health care and…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ approach to overall hospital quality star ratings appears to have several shortcomings, according to a new analysis by an expert in econometrics, commissioned by the AHA.
Hospitals are using technology to improve the efficiency of care delivery and create a new dynamic in patient interactions, according to the 18th annual Health Care’s Most Wired survey, released today by the AHA’s Health Forum subsidiary. For example, Most Wired organizations are using…
The AHA today shared with Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services a report examining barriers to transforming health care delivery created by outdated fraud and abuse laws. The report identifies seven major barriers created by the Stark and Anti-Kickback laws and/or…