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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…
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation will review and answer questions about the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model during a 60-minute webinar, offered at 2 p.m. ET on both Nov. 19 and 30. Finalized late yesterday, the new payment model will bundle payment to acute…
State and local governments and community-based public or non-profit organizations can apply through Jan. 20 for a portion of $32 million in grants to find and enroll eligible children in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today finalized a new payment model that will bundle payment to acute care hospitals for hip and knee replacement surgery. CMS delayed the start of the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model until April 1, 2016; the program will…
Hospitals are encouraged to review and exercise their security plans following Friday’s terror attacks across Paris, according to leaders of the public/private council that coordinates health care and public health sector preparedness activities for the departments of Homeland Security and…
The departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury Friday issued a final rule on "grandfathered" health plans, which are exempt from certain requirements under the Affordable Care Act. Effective for group health plans and issuers beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2017, the final…
The proposed Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana acquisitions would be good for the bottom lines of the respective health insurance companies – but bad for patients, according to an AHA advertorial in today’s Wall Street Journal. “There’s little reason to believe that the new…
The New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA) has launched two programs aimed at training veterans to help other veterans navigate the complexities of health care delivery and health insurance.Veterans will receive instruction on becoming health care navigators – who then will be stationed in…