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Medicare patients admitted to critical access hospitals for common surgical procedures are no more likely to die within 30 days than similar patients at other hospitals and have lower complication rates and expenditures, according to a study published today in the Journal of the American…
Hospitals, including those participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program, are the true safety-net, not the pharmaceutical industry with its “skyrocketing prescription drug prices and huge profits,” AHA Executive Vice President Tom Nickels writes in an AHASTAT blog post today.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) today introduced legislation that would repurpose $622.1 million in funding for Ebola and the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare for and respond to the Zika virus through September. He said the bill likely will be…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights Friday issued a final rule clarifying the standards the agency applies in implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, age or…
African-American children were more than twice as likely as white children to be readmitted to an urban children’s hospital for asthma between August 2010 and October 2011, with socioeconomic and other risk factors accounting for virtually all of the difference, according to a study published…
People who exercise more may be less likely to get 13 types of cancers, according to a study published online today by JAMA Internal Medicine. The study examined whether moderate to vigorous leisure-time physical activity was associated with lower risk of developing 26 kinds of cancer, based…
Fifty-three U.S. states, cities and territories with mosquitos that could carry Zika virus can apply through June 13 for a portion of $25 million in fiscal year 2016 funding to prepare and respond to a potential outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today.
Fewer than 1% of rural Medicare beneficiaries received a telemedicine visit in 2013, according to a study reported this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The average number of telemedicine visits for the 41,070 rural beneficiaries who did was 2.6, for a total of 107,955…
Hospital and health system leaders are invited to apply through June 1 for the AHA’s Health Care System Transformation Fellowship. The nine-month program is designed to give senior health care leaders knowledge, tools and connections to transform their organizations for success in a rapidly…
President Obama did not have the authority to pay cost-sharing reductions to low-income enrollees in health insurance plans purchased on an exchange, a federal district court judge ruled today, siding with the House Republicans who filed the lawsuit. The court will allow the subsidy program to…