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The proposed merger between health insurers Aetna and Humana would give the combined company 25% of Medicare Advantage enrollment nationwide, assuming no divestitures were required, according to a new report by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The proposed merger of Anthem and Cigna would give…
The Class of 2018 profiles the women and men who joined the AHA board this year.The amount of change going on in health care today is greater than anything INTEGRIS President and CEO Bruce Lawrence has seen in his 35 years in the field. Redefining the hospital’s role in this changing health…
As National Hospital Week draws to a close it is worth reflecting on how those blue and white signs with the big "H" have always carried the promise of help, hope and healing. The hospital of the future will continue to extend that promise, but in new ways that will be less about a building and…
At last week’s AHA Annual Membership Meeting, the association recognized people and organizations that improve America’s health care. Among the major awards presented at the meeting were:
A federal district judge yesterday rejected a Federal Trade Commission challenge of a proposed merger between Penn State Hershey Medical Center and PinnacleHealth System, denying the agency’s request to stop the merger while it completes an administrative trial. “The patients of Hershey…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology yesterday announced $1.5 million in funding to test selected clinical interoperability standards for health IT in priority areas, such as medication management, laboratory data exchange…
Louisiana hospitals generate more than $31.6 billion annually in state business activity and directly employ more than 103,000 people, according to a report released this week by the Louisiana Hospital Association. These expenditures in turn create and support another 311,120 jobs, the report…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed payment model for Medicare Part B drugs should not include hospitals, which “have little control over which drugs physicians prescribe in hospital-based settings,” AHA said in comments submitted today.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday released an interim final rule implementing changes to the special enrollment periods for public Health Insurance Marketplaces and rules for Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a May 12 webinar on its overall hospital quality “star ratings” methodology. During the 90-minute webinar, which begins at 1 p.m. ET, presenters will explain the methodology used to generate the summary rating for individual hospitals…