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Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-OH) has been tapped to chair the Health Subcommittee of the House Committee on Ways and Means. The subcommittee post became vacant when Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) was selected to chair the full committee.
The Joint Commission yesterday recognized 1,043 hospitals as a “Top Performer on Key Quality Measures” in 2014. The program examines the performance of hospitals accredited by the commission on 49 evidence-based practices for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgery,…
The four-hospital Charleston (WV) Area Medical Center Health System is one of four organizations to win the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the U.S. Commerce Department announced yesterday. The award is the nation’s highest presidential honor for quality and performance…
About 1.08 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. Two-thirds of the plan selections were by 2015 enrollees who were…
The National Center for Healthcare Leadership last night presented its 2015 Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award to Rich Umbdenstock, AHA past president and CEO, for his commitment to patients and communities.
By Shellie Byrum Hunger is a major health concern in New Mexico. The state ranks first nationally for child hunger and second for adult hunger. Yet, nearly 60% of adults in the state are overweight and more than a quarter are obese.That’s what makes Albuquerque-based Presbyterian…
The final bundled payment model for hip and knee replacement surgeries “takes several positive steps” to support hospitals’ efforts to improve patient care, the AHA said earlier this week.
The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to allow a wider variety of documentation to support a critical access hospital’s necessary provider designation, consistent with its past policies. “We are concerned that CMS’s recently articulated requirements around the…
The AHA today submitted several overarching recommendations for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System and alternative payment models in response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ request for comments to inform implementation. The MIPS and APMs constitute the two…
The House of Representatives yesterday approved two AHA-supported bills, sending them to the president for his signature. The Improving Access to Emergency Psychiatric Care Act (S. 599) would extend the Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Demonstration Program through September 2016, as long as it…