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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued guidance to help emergency medical systems, public health departments and health care coalitions develop plans for transporting patients with confirmed or suspected Ebola between facilities. The guidance can be used to develop transport…
Inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health and hospice providers will not be able to submit data to the Quality Improvement and Evaluation System from 8 p.m. ET March 16 through March 21 because the system will be down, according to…
The Missouri Hospital Association today released data on readmissions at the state’s hospitals that presents for the first time what the rates would be with risk-adjustment for sociodemographic status.
Wayne Young, senior vice president of behavioral health for JPS Health Network in Fort Worth, TX, is 2016 chair of the AHA's Constituency Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services. In addition to his behavioral health responsibilities, Young provides the general leadership and direction…
The AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust recently elected three members to its Board of Trustees for three-year terms that began Jan. 1. The new board members are: Chris Durovich, president and CEO of Children’s Health System of Texas; Alison Fleury, senior vice president of…
Despite offering some additional details, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) failed again in its Dec. 1 notice to establish a rational and lawful basis for cutting inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) payments by 0.2% in conjunction with its two-midnight policy, the AHA…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services failed again in its Dec. 1 notice to establish a rational and lawful basis for cutting inpatient prospective payment system payments by 0.2% in conjunction with its two-midnight policy, despite offering some additional details, AHA told the agency…
President Obama’s fiscal year 2017 budget request will include nearly $1.1 billion in new funding to address prescription opioid abuse and heroin use, the White House announced today.
The United States Pharmacopeial Convention yesterday published a standard for hazardous drug handling in health care settings. Effective July 1, 2018, the standard will apply to hospitals and other health care facilities that handle drugs identified as hazardous or potentially hazardous by the…
Hospitals and others applying for a hardship exception to the Medicare Electronic Health Records Incentive Program to avoid a 2017 payment adjustment need not submit documentation of their circumstances but should retain it for their own records, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services…