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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today released a white paper examining potential reforms to the physician self-referral law to remove barriers that prevent moving to alternative payment models.
An independent panel appointed by the Department of Health and Human Services to capture lessons learned from the agency’s response to Ebola today issued recommendations to enhance the federal response to international and domestic public health threats. The report calls for increased…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today published a correction to its recently updated fire safety standards for hospitals.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today updated the Open Payments website with 2015 data on payments by drug and device manufacturers to physicians and teaching hospitals, as well as new data for the 2013 and 2014 reporting periods.
The AHA earlier this week called on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand its proposed definition of advanced alternative payment models (APM) for the physician quality payment program.The AHA weighed in on the agency’s April 27 proposed rule implementing key…
Seventy members of the House of Representatives today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to waive fee-for-service regulations, such as the 25% Rule for long-term care hospitals, that limit care coordination and collaboration for acute care hospitals and post-acute care providers…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ interim final rule changing the eligibility criteria for Health Insurance Marketplace special enrollment periods strikes “the appropriate balance between ensuring consumer access to coverage and protecting plans from potential SEP abuses…
About 200 physician practices, including hospital-based practices, and 17 commercial insurers will begin participating July 1 in an alternative payment model for fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries undergoing chemotherapy, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today.
The Food and Drug Administration has created an Oncology Center of Excellence to coordinate and speed regulatory review of cancer drugs, biologics and medical devices as part of the administration’s Cancer Moonshot initiative.
The AHA’s American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration this month welcomed as its new executive director Catherine Carruth, a certified association executive with more than 10 years of experience at the AHA. “We are delighted to have Catherine join the ASHHRA team,…