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As urged by AHA, states may immediately use alternative ways to document that a critical access hospital is a “necessary provider,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today in guidance to state survey agencies. CMS last year issued interpretive guidance that allowed only a…
Hospitals will not be able to submit fourth-quarter 2015 data to the hospital inpatient and outpatient quality reporting programs until early to mid-March because the Health Care Quality Information System Data Center is being relocated, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports.
Flu-related hospitalizations are nearly twice as common in high-poverty areas as in low-poverty areas, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A collaborative initiative among 14 states that examined the association between census tract-level poverty and…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Feb. 11 issued a final rule implementing Section 6402(a) of the Affordable Care Act, which creates a reporting and repayment obligation for providers and suppliers who receive a Medicare overpayment.The final rule requires providers and…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a final rule implementing Section 6402(a) of the Affordable Care Act, which creates a reporting and repayment obligation for providers and suppliers who receive a Medicare overpayment. The final rule requires providers and suppliers…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today extended to March 11 the deadline for hospitals and eligible professionals to attest to meaningful use of electronic health records for the 2015 Medicare Electronic Health Records Incentive Program. The original deadline was Feb. 29.
The Senate Judiciary Committee today amended and approved by voice vote two bipartisan bills aimed at stemming the opioid epidemic. The Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act (S. 483), authored by Sens.
The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday named seven new members to the Advisory Panel on Hospital Outpatient Payment, which advises the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on the appropriate supervision level for hospital outpatient therapeutic services.
Lynn Smith, auxilian at CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs (AR), will chair the AHA's 2016 Committee on Volunteers. The specialty committee of the AHA Board of Trustees focuses on the roles, responsibilities and services of organized volunteers and auxilians, as well as the community perspective they…
The Coalition to Protect America’s Health Care has launched a redesigned website showcasing its mission, Hospital Heroes campaign and other video and digital products. Formed in 2000, the coalition is a broad-based group of hospitals, businesses and national, state and local hospital…