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Cleveland Clinic’s mantra is “patients first,” says Brian Donley, M.D., the health system’s chief of staff. And he says his organization can’t put patients first unless it “understands the needs of our patients and the barriers to getting them the care that they…
The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will have sufficient funds to cover its obligations until 2028, two years earlier than projected last year, according to the latest annual report from the Medicare Board of Trustees. Still, that’s 11 years later than projected before passage of…
The AHA today expressed support for the Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act (H.R. 5547), bipartisan legislation that would promote cost transparency for health care consumers. “Consumers deserve meaningful information about the price of their hospital care, and hospital leaders are…
Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Al Franken (D-MN), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Edward Markey (D-MA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) today urged the Department of Justice to challenge the proposed mergers of health insurance companies Aetna and Humana and Anthem…
The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday issued a report summarizing previous research on how the expansion of Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act has made health care more accessible and affordable for eligible low-income adults. Among other findings, expansion…
Hospitals are making some progress to achieve health equity, but more work needs to be done, according to a biennial benchmarking survey released today by the AHA’s Institute for Diversity in Health Management. The survey found significant increases from 2013 in the percentage of…
The Senate Judiciary Committee today held a hearing on the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples Act, AHA-supported legislation that targets anticompetitive behaviors used to block and delay entry of generic drugs.
Testing for Zika virus infection using real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction molecular assays is now commercially available, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today. When requesting the testing from a commercial laboratory, health care providers…
The Department of Health and Human Services will award $20 million to help eligible clinicians in small practices transition to the Quality Payment Program, especially those in rural, medically underserved and health professional shortage areas.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a July 6 call on its final rule revising the Medicare payment system for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests. CMS experts will provide a high-level overview of the final policies, released Friday. To register for the call, at 2:30 p.m…