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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today warned health care providers and patients about the potential risk of infection from certain devices used during open heart surgery. Stöckert 3T heater-cooler devices, made by LivaNova PLC (formerly Sorin Group Deutschland GmbH), may have been…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced a pilot program to reduce medical record reviews for physicians and hospitals participating in certain advanced alternative payment models.
The Department of Health and Human Services should comprehensively plan and set timelines for its efforts to develop more meaningful quality measures, and prioritize its development of electronic quality measures and related data elements for the core measures it and private payers have agreed to…
Medicaid enrollment and spending growth slowed to 3.9% and 5.9%, respectively, in fiscal year 2016 due to slower enrollment related to the Affordable Care Act, according to the latest annual survey of state Medicaid directors by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. States…
Hospitals that serve predominantly low-income, medically-underserved individuals may submit an application to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services through Oct. 15 to add their facility to the Essential Community Provider list for the 2018 Health Insurance Marketplaces.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today published at the Medicare Plan Finder star ratings for 2017 Medicare Advantage and prescription drug plans. About half of MA plans with prescription drug coverage and stand-alone prescription drug plans earned an overall rating of four…
The share of hospitals offering health and wellness programs or initiatives to employees was unchanged between 2010 and 2015, at about 87%, but the programs are changing, more employees are participating and more hospitals are extending them to people in their community, according to a report …
Hospital representatives are invited to learn more about recent policy activities impacting the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor program and review results from the AHA's latest RACTrac survey during a webinar Oct. 18 at 2 p.m. ET. The free web-based survey helps AHA gauge the impact of…
The AHA and Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology will host a Twitter chat Monday, Oct. 17 on the important roles patients, families and health care professionals play in breaking the chain of infections. Topics will include hand hygiene, flu vaccination and antibiotic…
Inpatient hospital drug costs increased more than 38% per admission between 2013 and 2015, according to a report from the University of Chicago’s NORC, an independent research institution. The report was commissioned by the AHA and Federation of American Hospitals (FAH), who unveiled its…