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The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has released an executive summary of findings from the first site visits by its Clinical Learning Environment Review Program, which provides feedback to GME and hospital leaders on opportunities to improve the clinical learning…
Health care providers and other stakeholders may email questions and concerns regarding the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ final rule applying certain provisions of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 to Medicaid managed care organizations, Medicaid…
The AHA has extended to July 29 the deadline for all hospitals to submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey. The free web-based survey helps AHA measure the impact of Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor program on hospitals and advocate for needed changes. For more information on the RACTrac…
Saying the proposed deal would “lead to higher health-insurance prices, reduced benefits, less innovation, and worse service” for consumers, the Department of Justice today filed a lawsuit in federal court to block Aetna’s acquisition of Humana.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released data on the national distribution of overall hospital quality star ratings and by hospital characteristics, including bed size, teaching status, safety-net status, eligibility for Disproportionate Share Hospital payments and…
States, cities and territories will receive $60 million in grants Aug. 1 to protect pregnant women and others from Zika virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today. The funding will support epidemiologic surveillance and investigation, mosquito control and monitoring…
About 86% of hospitals expect to submit electronic clinical quality measures by Feb. 28, 2017, according to survey results released yesterday by The Joint Commission. That’s the deadline for hospitals participating in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program to submit four eCQMs for…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has selected 516 organizations, including hospitals, to participate in the Million Hearts Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction Model beginning in September. The randomized controlled trial will test whether paying practices to identify and…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) today filed lawsuits in District of Columbia federal court to block Anthem’s acquisition of Cigna and Aetna’s acquisition of Humana.
When 2016 McKesson Quest for Quality Prize recipient Memorial Medical Center teamed up with St. John’s Hospital and the Sangamon County Department of Public Health to conduct a comprehensive community health needs assessment two years ago, both hospitals saw an opportunity to make a…