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The AHA today expressed support for the Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act (H.R. 5547), bipartisan legislation that would promote cost transparency for health care consumers. “Consumers deserve meaningful information about the price of their hospital care, and hospital leaders are…
Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Al Franken (D-MN), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Edward Markey (D-MA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) today urged the Department of Justice to challenge the proposed mergers of health insurance companies Aetna and Humana and Anthem…
The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday issued a report summarizing previous research on how the expansion of Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act has made health care more accessible and affordable for eligible low-income adults. Among other findings, expansion…
Hospitals are making some progress to achieve health equity, but more work needs to be done, according to a biennial benchmarking survey released today by the AHA’s Institute for Diversity in Health Management. The survey found significant increases from 2013 in the percentage of…
The Senate Judiciary Committee today held a hearing on the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples Act, AHA-supported legislation that targets anticompetitive behaviors used to block and delay entry of generic drugs.
Testing for Zika virus infection using real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction molecular assays is now commercially available, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today. When requesting the testing from a commercial laboratory, health care providers…
The Department of Health and Human Services will award $20 million to help eligible clinicians in small practices transition to the Quality Payment Program, especially those in rural, medically underserved and health professional shortage areas.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a July 6 call on its final rule revising the Medicare payment system for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests. CMS experts will provide a high-level overview of the final policies, released Friday. To register for the call, at 2:30 p.m…
July 1 is the deadline for employers and labor consultants to comply with the Department of Labor’s new “persuader” reporting rule. The final rule significantly expands the circumstances obligating employers and labor consultants to report activities specifically undertaken…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced plans to step up enrollment outreach to young adults for the 2017 Health Insurance Marketplaces, including working with partners to promote enrollment tools and information. As part of the initiative, AHA plans to develop a…