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The Council for Affordable and Quality Healthcare will share updated data on administrative cost savings from reducing manual business transactions during a webinar tomorrow at 2 p.m. ET. For more information and to register for the webinar, click here. For more on the benefits of administrative…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday issued a report summarizing national and international public health efforts to address the Zika virus following its introduction in the Americas.
Rachelle Schultz, president and CEO of Winona Health in Winona, MN, will lead the AHA's Constituency Section for Small or Rural Hospitals in 2017. Schultz will chair the section's 19-person governing council, which represents small or rural hospitals in the AHA's policy process and member services…
The House of Representatives last night voted 404-0 to approve the Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medicines Act (H.R. 304). The AHA-supported legislation clarifies that medications governed by the Controlled Substances Act may be administered by emergency medical services practitioners…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday released a final rule implementing significant changes to the requirements for home health agencies that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Among other changes, the rule expands the standards for patient rights, patient…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released additional details on the Medicare Accountable Care Organization Track 1+ model, which will begin in 2018.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today released the fifth and final report in a series examining social risk factors that affect the health outcomes of Medicare beneficiaries and how to account for these factors in Medicare value-based payment programs. The final…
More than 11.5 million people selected a 2017 health plan through the Health Insurance Marketplaces as of Dec. 24, an increase of 286,000 compared to the comparable period last year, according to a report released today by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. More than 8.7 million…
The drive to build a continuum of care that rewards value over volume is unlikely to abate because it’s what consumers demand, AHA General Counsel Melinda Reid Hatton writes in an AHA Stat blog post today, responding to a commentary on consolidation published in The JAMA Forum.
Joe McDonald, president and CEO of Catholic Health System in Buffalo, NY, will serve as 2017 council chairman of the AHA's Constituency Section for Health Care Systems. Steven Corwin, M.D., president and CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian in New York, is council chairman-elect and will become chair in…