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More than 660 organizations, including the AHA, today urged House and Senate appropriators to increase the funding allocation for the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Education in fiscal year 2017, saying programs and services funded by the “Labor-HHS spending bill continue…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released data on Medicare-enrolled providers and suppliers, and a mapping tool showing the availability and use of ambulance and home health services by region.
The Health Resources and Services Administration is accepting applications through April 8 for fiscal year 2016 grants to support telehealth services for school-based health centers in rural, frontier and underserved communities. Hospitals may sponsor the health centers and be part of the…
PENTAX has issued revised manual reprocessing instructions for its ED-3490TK Video Duodenoscope to replace those provided in the original device labeling, the Food and Drug Administration reports. Health care facilities using the duodenoscope should train staff on the new validated instructions and…
The AHA today launched an online resource to help hospital and physician leaders prepare for coming changes to the Medicare physician payment system. Section 101 of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 replaced the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate methodology for updates to the…
By Mary Ellen CallahanOver the past few weeks, several health care companies and hospitals have been hit by ransomware. For example, when patients walked into one hospital, they were greeted with the information that the hospital had no access to email, some patient data was inaccessible, and other…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today announced proposed changes to the Medicare Advantage and Part D prescription drug programs for calendar year 2017, which would increase payment rates by a net 1.35%. When combined with expected growth in plan risk scores, CMS…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today issued updated guidelines for U.S. health care providers caring for infants and children with possible Zika virus infection.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposes to establish a demonstration project that would require prior authorization for Medicare fee-for-service coverage of home health services in Florida, Texas, Illinois, Michigan and Massachusetts, according to a recent CMS notice. The…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released additional guidance on the new sepsis/septic shock measure (SEP-1) for hospitals participating in the inpatient quality reporting program. Available at www.qualitynet.org, the guidance clarifies the data elements for the chart-abstracted…