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Kevin Most, D.O., vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer for Northwestern Medicine at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, IL, will chair the AHA’s Committee for Clinical Leadership for 2016. The committee is charged with providing clinical input to the AHA advocacy…
Olympus has recalled its TJF-Q180V duodenoscope so it can make Food and Drug Administration-approved modifications to the roughly 4,400 devices in use in U.S. health care facilities, the FDA announced today.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday finalized its recommendations to provide no updates in fiscal year 2017 for Medicare payments to home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities or long-term care hospitals. In addition, the commission…
The AHA today recommended changes to certain provisions of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ 2017 draft letter to issuers of qualified health plans in federally facilitated marketplaces.
The Collaborative for Accountability and Improvement and the National Patient Safety Foundation will sponsor a Feb. 18-19 retreat for health care leaders on how to establish an effective communication and resolution program for adverse events.
A new white paper from the Center for Healthcare Governance discusses essential governance practices and challenges in building and supporting good governance in multi-organizational systems with multiple, layered boards. It also examines factors boards should consider as they transform their…
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Jan. 12 released the first in a planned series of reports that will identify “social risk factors” affecting the health outcomes of Medicare beneficiaries and methods to account for these factors in Medicare payment programs like the Hospital…
The AHA last week criticized as “misdirected” and a blow to patient care the Medicare Payment Assessment Commission’s (MedPAC) recommendation that Congress reduce Part B drug payment rates to hospitals participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program.
At its Jan. 14 meeting, the commission voted 14…
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission today recommended that Congress update payments for hospital inpatient and outpatient services in 2017 as outlined under current law, which would provide an estimated 1.65% increase. In addition, MedPAC voted to reduce Part B drug payment rates for hospitals…
The AHA yesterday urged the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to finalize guidance on opioid prescribing for chronic pain as soon as possible. “Precisely because the dangers of under-treating pain and of over-prescribing opioids are so great, hospitals and their medical staffs are…