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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a Nov. 2 Open Door Forum call on data reporting for the Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Test Payment System. The call will review how to report data required by the final rule for the payment system, which will be used to set Medicare…
The hospital can be a scary place for anyone – especially children. Big machines, doctors in masks, and new places can seem like monsters to kids. So St. Joseph's Children's Hospital in Tampa has turned to technology to ease its young patients' fears. The hospital has released “…
The Department of Health and Human Services expects 13.8 million people to select a health plan during 2017 open enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplaces, about one million more than this year, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell said today.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today convened a Rural Health Solutions Summit, where agency leaders and health care stakeholders discussed ways to improve access to care in rural America and support innovation in health care delivery.
The Comprehensive Primary Care initiative generated $57.7 million in gross savings for Medicare Parts A and B in 2015, the second year of shared savings results, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced this week. “Further, more than half of participating CPC practices will…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthcare and Public Health Sector Critical Infrastructure Protection Program invites health care leaders to attend its annual partnership meeting Oct. 24-25 in Washington, D.C. The program works with public and private partners to protect…
To continue to transform the health care delivery system and improve quality and affordability of care for patients, hospitals need the next administration and Congress to prioritize modernizing outdated and burdensome laws and regulations, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack told attendees at a…
Leonhard Lang has recalled certain lots of an automatic external defibrillator electrode because the user may not be able to connect it to the defibrillator when a shock is needed due to a compatibility issue, the Food and Drug Administration announced Friday. A delay in delivering electrical…
The National Academy for State Health Policy today issued 11 proposals to help states rein in rising prescription drug costs.
A total of 168 organizations, including the AHA, last week urged House and Senate appropriators to maintain at least $334 million in budget authority for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in fiscal year 2017.