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The Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network, a forum initiated by Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell in March to advance health care payment models that promote quality and value, will host a summit on alternative payment models Oct. 26 in Arlington, VA.…
An AHASTAT blog post today looks at the likely impact of the proposed Aetna-Humana merger on seniors in Medicare Advantage. “Keeping Medicare Advantage affordable for seniors depends on robust competition among health plans,” writes Melinda Hatton, AHA senior vice president and general…
An estimated 33 million U.S. residents lacked health insurance in 2014, a decline of 2.9 percentage points or 8.8 million people, the Census Bureau reported today. That’s the largest percentage-point decline since 2008. Several Affordable Care Act provisions took effect in 2014,…
The federal government should “immediately adopt” proposed changes to Stage 2 meaningful use requirements for the Medicare & Medicaid Electronic Health Records Incentive Programs and delay finalizing a rule for Stage 3 requirements until 2017, Senate Health, Education, Labor and…
The AHA’s Physician Leadership Forum today issued a toolkit to help hospital leaders, clinicians and patients align intensive care unit treatment with patient priorities in the context of progressive disease.
The AHA yesterday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to strategically build its star rating system for overall hospital-level quality rather than trying to retrofit existing Hospital Compare measures when they were not chosen with this goal in mind.
The Food and Drug Administration today announced changes to the requirements for monitoring, prescribing, dispensing and receiving the schizophrenia medicine clozapine to address continuing safety concerns about a serious blood condition called severe neutropenia. First, FDA revised the…
More than 700 hospitals have signed onto the AHA’s #123forEquity Pledge to Act Campaign to eliminate health care disparities.
Certain adults at increased risk for cardiovascular disease should take low-dose aspirin daily to prevent heart attack, stroke and colorectal cancer, according to a draft recommendation issued today by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
The AHA and its Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development affiliate will host a webcast tomorrow on the value and potential of social media to leverage hospital community programs and increase patient engagement. Representatives from two hospitals will present their experiences. In…