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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today delayed to Jan. 1 a new policy requiring health care providers to document in the patient’s record and on Medicare claims, through the use of the ”JW modifier,” the amount discarded when Part B drugs or biological…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response has issued resources to help health care providers and coalitions plan for a real or potential Zika virus outbreak.
A Senate appropriations subcommittee today approved legislation that would provide $161.9 billion in base discretionary funding for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and related agencies in fiscal year 2017, $270 million less than this year. HHS programs would receive $…
The AHA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released a one-page resource to help hospital patients who may be prescribed opioids before discharge discuss the risks and benefits of these medications with their health care provider.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released a final rule that makes technical changes to the way financial targets are calculated for accountable care organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. CMS will account for differences in regional health care spending…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has provided additional information on its temporary pause of Quality Improvement Organization claim audits under the two-midnight inpatient admissions policy. During the pause, which began May 4, CMS will improve standardization around the QIO…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services invites hospitals to submit innovative quality improvement practices to its Strategic Innovation Engine, which will evaluate them for possible dissemination across the nation. Targeted improvements include managing patients with multiple chronic…
The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, today launched a centralized data system for sharing cancer genomic and clinical data between researchers as part of the administration’s Cancer Moonshot and Precision Medicine initiatives. The Genomic Data Commons…
The average premium change between 2015 and 2016 for the lowest-cost silver plan in the Health Insurance Marketplace varied widely by state, from a 12.1% decrease in Indiana to a 41.8% increase in Oklahoma, according to a recent study by the Urban Institute. The finding is based on the premium…
John Combes, M.D., AHA’s chief medical officer and senior vice president and president of its Center for Healthcare Governance, will retire in October after almost 12 years leading the association’s governance and physician leadership efforts.