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The AHA is accepting nominations through Dec. 7 for its 2016 NOVA Awards. Leaders of AHA member hospitals and health systems are invited to nominate outstanding collaborative programs that improve community health status through health care, economic or social initiatives. Up to five awards…
The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to increase the number of hospital-based and physician office laboratories that qualify as applicable laboratories under its proposed rule for the new Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule to ensure its rates are representative of…
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday issued a safety announcement alerting health care providers to the possibility that the coating on certain intravascular medical devices may separate and cause injury to patients. Devices such as intravascular catheters, guidewires, balloon angioplasty…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services seeks comments on a draft ICD-9-CM code list for hip fracture diagnoses that it has developed in connection with its new payment model that will bundle payment to acute care hospitals for hip and knee replacement surgery. The Comprehensive Care…
The Department of Health and Human Services today released a notice with the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program federal medical assistance percentages for fiscal year FY 2017. The notice provides the state-by-state FMAP percentages for Medicaid, CHIP and disaster-…
Nearly four in 10 people – 39% – know someone who has been addicted to prescription painkillers, including 25% who say it was a close friend or family member and 2% who acknowledge their own addiction, according to a new poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
A quarter of privately insured working-age adults say their health care is unaffordable, according to the latest Commonwealth Fund Health Care Affordability Index released Nov. 20. The report, "How High Is America’s Health Care Cost Burden?" is based on an annual Commonwealth Fund…
A new white paper from the AHA Workforce Center provides resources to help hospitals transform their workforce along the care continuum. Building on previous Workforce Center resources, the paper examines workforce-specific roles, responsibilities and technologies for hospitals to consider as…
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners voted this weekend to approve model state-level legislation to ensure health insurance provider network adequacy. They did so after a lengthy 18-month process that included extensive engagement with health plans, providers, consumer advocates and…
Eligible professionals and group practices participating in the Physician Quality Reporting System who believe they were incorrectly assessed a negative payment adjustment for 2016 may ask the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to review their adjustment determination through Dec. 11 by…