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President Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2017 budget request – set for release on Feb. 9 – should protect access to health care services for seniors and the disabled by not including any further hospital payment reductions under Medicare, the AHA last week wrote the president.
Congress should adopt a single broad exception to federal fraud and abuse laws for financial relationships designed to foster collaboration, efficiencies and improvements in health care, AHA told leaders of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees today.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a proposed rule that would allow organizations approved as qualified entities to confidentially share or sell analyses of Medicare and private claims data to health care providers, employers and others to support improved care. The…
President Obama yesterday established a federal task force to recommend how to speed new treatments and a cure for cancer, an initiative announced in his recent State of the Union address. Chaired by Vice President Joe Biden and funded by the National Institutes of Health, the White House Cancer…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday posted to Home Health Compare the first star ratings for home health patients’ experience of care.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has updated its Opioid Overdose Toolkit. The publication offers information and resources to help first responders, prescribers, patients/families and community members prevent opioid overdose. According to the agency, more than 28,000…
Baxter International Inc. has recalled four lots of intravenous solutions due to the potential for leaking containers and particulate matter, the Food and Drug Administration announced this week. Hospital and other customers should not use the products and should return them to Baxter for…
Thirty-one travel-associated cases of Zika virus have been detected in 11 states and the District of Columbia since 2015, Anne Schuchat, M.D., principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a media briefing today, adding that information on the…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued a final rule that implements statutorily-required changes pertaining to home health services covered by Medicaid. Similar to Medicare guidelines, authorization of home health services under Medicaid will require physicians to…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released a proposed rule that would make technical changes to the way financial targets are calculated for accountable care organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. CMS proposes to account for differences in regional health…