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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a video reviewing ICD-10-CM coding basics. On the video, Nelly Leon-Chisen, director of coding and classification at the AHA, and Sue Bowman, senior director of coding policy and compliance at the American Health Information Management…
Hospitals this week joined in celebrating National Influenza Vaccination Week, created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to highlight the importance of flu vaccination into the holiday season and beyond.
The recent wave of increases in the cost of prescription drugs is straining hospital budgets and squeezing patients, hospital and other health care witnesses Dec. 9 told the Senate Aging Committee at a hearing on “sudden price hikes” in off-patent drugs.Witnesses cited huge cost…
The House of Representatives last night passed by unanimous consent AHA-supported legislation (S. 1461) that would delay through December 2015 enforcement of direct supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services provided in critical access hospitals and certain small, rural hospitals…
The AHA, Catholic Health Association of the United States and Association of American Medical Colleges today urged the Internal Revenue Service to publicly confirm that hospitals may report expenditures for clean and safe housing on Part I of their 2015 Schedule H forms. “We are aware of the…
The recent wave of increases in the cost of prescription drugs is straining hospital budgets and squeezing patients, hospital and other health care witnesses today told the Senate Aging Committee at a hearing on “sudden price hikes” in off-patent drugs.
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today held a hearing on several health care-related bills, including the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act (H.R. 2713). Introduced by Reps.
More than 2.8 million people have selected a health plan through the federally-facilitated Health Insurance Marketplace since the start of open enrollment Nov. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today. Nearly two-thirds of the plan selections were by 2015 enrollees…
A new report reinforces the need for Kansas to develop a plan to expand Medicaid to uninsured low-income adults under the Affordable Care Act, according to the Kansas Hospital Association. Prepared by Manatt Health Solutions for Kansas Grantmakers in Health, the report estimates that Medicaid…
Health care is expected to add more jobs than any other sector through 2024, including at least 394,900 hospital jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projected today. In addition to hospitals, the agency anticipates roughly 760,000 new jobs in home health care, 736,000 in nursing and…