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The Department of Labor yesterday awarded $200,000 each to 52 states and territories to expand and expedite registered apprenticeship programs through ApprenticeshipUSA.
The Government Accountability Office yesterday appointed five new members to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission through April 2019.
Hospitals participating in the AHA’s first-quarter 2016 RACTrac survey report appealing 47% of all Recovery Audit Contractor claim denials, with 60% found to have no overpayment. Participants said inpatient coding error was the most common reason RACs cited for complex claim denials.
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.33% in May to a seasonally adjusted 5,077,700 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. That's 16,500 more people than in April and 192,100 more than a year ago. Without the seasonal adjustment, which removes the effect of…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will host a free webinar June 9 at 3:30 p.m. ET on infection control and prevention in the outpatient oncology setting. For more information or to register, click here.
The AHA today urged the Food and Drug Administration to expand its proposed study of direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising to include televised and internet advertising and to test the impact of other product information on consumer behavior, such as price and comparative effectiveness…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology yesterday posted transparency attestations and links to mandatory product disclosures by developers of certified health information technology.
Eight organizations have received grants to provide environmental infection control and hazard recognition training to health care and other workers with the potential for exposure to high-risk infectious diseases, the National Institutes of Health announced yesterday.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today released a “Patient Engagement Playbook” tool to help health care practices, hospital administrators and others use patient portals to engage patients in…
Hospitals participating in the first four cohorts of an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality program led by the AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust affiliate reduced catheter-associated urinary tract infections by 32% in non-intensive care units between March 2011 and November 2013…