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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday extended the deadline for certain health insurance issuers to distribute medical loss ratio rebates to enrollees. The one-month extension applies to issuers that CMS asked to validate and reconcile their risk corridors results, or revise and…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released premium and cost information for Medicare Advantage and Part D prescription drug plans for the 2016 calendar year.
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management and Health Research & Educational Trust last week mailed hospital CEOs their 2015 survey to learn more about hospitals’ ongoing efforts to address health care disparities and improve diversity management practices. All hospitals are…
The AHA’s American Society for Healthcare Engineering, in collaboration with The Joint Commission, has released the first in a new series of resources to help health care facilities comply with the most challenging life safety and environment-of-care accreditation standards. Additional…
The AHA and Federation of American Hospitals today urged the National Labor Relations Board to affirm its long-standing position requiring the consent of both employers if a bargaining unit combines a sole employer’s workers with those found to be joint-employees with another employer.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Homeland Security on Monday will remove Liberia from the list of Ebola-affected nations subject to enhanced visa and port-of-entry screening, the CDC said today. The World Health Organization declared Liberia free of Ebola…
A National Institutes of Health advisory group yesterday issued recommendations for creating and managing a national network of research volunteers for the president’s Precision Medicine Initiative. Participants would share their health data and a biological specimen for research to…
The Food and Drug Administration today issued safety recommendations for health care facilities that reprocess flexible bronchoscopes. The agency said facilities and staff should strictly adhere to the manufacturer’s reprocessing instructions, and immediately remove from service any…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services encourages hospitals to review their results from its “dry run” test of a new claims-based outcome measure for the inpatient quality reporting program in fiscal year 2018. Hospital-specific reports on the measure, “excess days in…
An estimated 90% of hospital workers report receiving a flu vaccine for the 2014-15 flu season, about the same as in 2013-14, according to a survey released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Coverage for health care workers in all settings was 77%, up from 75% in 2012-13…