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The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee today held a hearing to examine solutions to the rising trend in opioid abuse and overdose deaths in the U.S.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response encourages hospitals to participate in recently opened discussions on its Information Exchange about updating the Hospital Preparedness Program’s health care preparedness…
In an AHASTAT blog post today, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack responds to a recent Wall Street Journal analysis that questioned the recent reductions in hospital readmissions. “Here is what the numbers show,” Pollack writes.
The AHA encourages all hospitals to complete the eighth annual Information Technology Supplement to the AHA Annual Survey, which the association began mailing to CEOs Friday. Recipients should forward the survey to their chief information officer to complete on paper or online by Dec. 28.
Patrick Conway, M.D., Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services deputy administrator for innovation and quality and chief medical officer, will discuss the future of the global budgeting payment model during a Dec. 18 webinar hosted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in…
New Jersey’s 63 not-for-profit hospitals provided $2.4 billion in community benefit in 2013, accounting for 13.4% of their total hospital expense, according to a new report from EY (formerly Ernst & Young) commissioned by the New Jersey Hospital Association.
Hospitals subject to a reduction in Medicare outpatient payments in 2016 due to non-compliance with the outpatient quality reporting program may appeal the determination by submitting a reconsideration request by Feb. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Friday.
The addition of a single insurer in a county was associated with a 1.2% lower premium for the average silver plan and a 3.5% lower premium for the benchmark plan in the federally run Health Insurance Marketplaces for 2015, according to a study published today in Health Affairs.
The Food and Drug Administration, National Health Information Sharing Analysis Center, Department of Health and Human Services, and Department of Homeland Security will hold a public workshop Jan. 20-21 on collaborative approaches to medical device cybersecurity. The workshop will highlight past…
The Government Accountability Office today issued comprehensive results from a survey of state methods for financing Medicaid payments from 2008 to 2012, a supplement to the agency’s July 2014 report on the survey. Based on a questionnaire sent to state Medicaid agencies, the 2014 report…