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Anthem’s proposed acquisition of Cigna and Aetna’s proposed acquisition of Humana “merit the closest scrutiny from the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and Congress,” AHA told the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and…
More than 700 hospitals have signed onto the AHA’s #123forEquity Pledge to Act Campaign to eliminate health care disparities, the association recently announced.In addition, the AHA noted that a number of partner organizations have endorsed the campaign, first announced at July’s…
Finding in favor of hospitals, a federal judge late yesterday rejected the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ arguments that it met all legal requirements for rulemaking when the agency cut hospitals’ inpatient payments by 0.2% in conjunction with its “two-midnight…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday re-issued hospital-specific reports to all hospitals in the fiscal year 2016 Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program to correct inaccuracies in the surgical site infection measure scores. The revised reports also include updated…
The National Academy of Medicine today issued recommendations for reducing diagnostic errors in health care, concluding that most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime.
The average annual premium for employer-sponsored family health coverage rose 4% this year to $17,545, according to the latest annual survey of employer-sponsored health insurance by the Kaiser Family Foundation and AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust. The average annual…
Finding in favor of hospitals, U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss Sept. 21 rejected the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) arguments for imposing a 0.2% Medicare payment cut on hospitals as part of its “two-midnight” policy. The judge did not order HHS to return…
The “unprecedented” consolidation that would result from recently announced health insurance company acquisitions threatens consumers and the nation’s health care system, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack Sept. 22 told a Senate Judiciary Committee panel.
Tim McKinney started the nonprofit United Global Outreach, Inc. (UGO) six years ago with the mission to “transform forgotten communities into places in which we’d all want to live.”UGO focused its efforts on Bithlo, a neglected community in Florida’s East Orange County with…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today updated the federal government’s five-year plan for using health IT to improve health care quality and health, lower costs and engage patients. “The work…