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The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) will host its third National Summit on Advanced Illness Care Sept. 20-21 in Washington, D.C. AHA is a co-sponsor of the event, which brings together national leaders in advanced illness care. For more information or to register, visit www.ctacsummit.…
The AHA today expressed support for draft legislation in the Senate that would eliminate the “all-or-nothing approach” to meaningful use under the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records Incentive Programs.
The AHA yesterday urged the Internal Revenue Service to publish guidance affirming that hospitals may participate in accountable care organizations without generating a tax cost or incurring “the catastrophic loss” of their tax-exempt status.
The House today agreed to go to conference with the Senate on the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (S. 524), rejecting a Democratic-sponsored motion instructing conferees to provide funding for the bill’s treatment and recovery provisions. Both the House and Senate approaches would…
An estimated 28.6 million U.S. residents lacked health insurance when surveyed in 2015, 7.4 million fewer than in 2014, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The proportion of residents who were uninsured when interviewed for the National…
Medicare patients admitted to critical access hospitals for common surgical procedures are no more likely to die within 30 days than similar patients at other hospitals and have lower complication rates and expenditures, according to a study published today in the Journal of the American…
Hospitals, including those participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program, are the true safety-net, not the pharmaceutical industry with its “skyrocketing prescription drug prices and huge profits,” AHA Executive Vice President Tom Nickels writes in an AHASTAT blog post today.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) today introduced legislation that would repurpose $622.1 million in funding for Ebola and the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare for and respond to the Zika virus through September. He said the bill likely will be…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights Friday issued a final rule clarifying the standards the agency applies in implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, age or…
African-American children were more than twice as likely as white children to be readmitted to an urban children’s hospital for asthma between August 2010 and October 2011, with socioeconomic and other risk factors accounting for virtually all of the difference, according to a study published…