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The Internal Revenue Service yesterday alerted payroll and human resources professionals to beware of an emerging phishing email scheme that purports to be from company executives and requests personal information on employees.
The Campaign for Sustainable Rx Pricing today announced that AARP has joined its effort to find market-based solutions to the problems caused by high-priced prescription medicines. “Although older Americans are particularly vulnerable to high prescription drug costs, this problem has…
Charlestown – a 1-square mile neighborhood in Boston – seemed mired in an opioid crisis in 2003.Addicts colonized neighborhood parks and fast-food restaurants locked their bathroom doors after finding discarded needles. The signs of the crisis even appeared on a Sunday afternoon at a…
Nearly every day health care practitioners from Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus, Ohio, practice an outreach effort known as street medicine – or “street med” for short. It’s a combination of direct service to people living in homeless camps around the city and the…
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today held a hearing on the U.S. public health response to the Zika virus.
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday issued recommendations for screening donors of human cells, tissues, and cellular and tissue-based products (HCT/Ps) to reduce the potential risk of Zika virus transmission.
Hospitals continue to appeal Recovery Audit Contractor claim denials, according to the latest report from the AHA's quarterly RACTrac survey. Hospitals participating in the fourth-quarter 2015 survey report appealing 49% of all RAC claim denials, and 60% of claims reviewed in the fourth quarter…
The AHA and American Medical Group Association are offering a new fellowship to help member hospitals and health systems with employed physicians move to a more integrated system of care to manage population health and succeed in new physician payment models coming in 2019 under the Medicare…
Seventeen companies that make an estimated 90% of the electronic health record (EHR) products used by hospitals have pledged to help providers share health information for care whenever permitted by law, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced Feb. 29.
They also pledged…
By Shellie Byrum The Class of 2018 profiles the women and men who joined the AHA board this year.The hospital and health system field faces significant transformation, with a tectonic shift in focus from episodic care to promoting community health and wellness, AHA board member Carmela Coyle…