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The Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Payment model could help further hospital efforts to transform care delivery through improved care coordination and financial accountability, the AHA told the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in comments submitted today.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposal to pay explicitly for advanced care planning services under the physician fee schedule will help ensure that Medicare beneficiaries are able to develop advanced care plans with their medical care providers, AHA Executive Vice…
The AHA Friday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to withdraw a proposed 3.41% coding cut in its proposed rule for the home health prospective payment system in calendar year 2016. The rule bases the proposed cut on an analysis of nominal case-mix change in CYs 2000 through 2009…
Seventy percent of U.S. health insurance markets are highly concentrated, based on guidelines used by the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission to assess market competition, according to a study released yesterday by the American Medical Association. In 89% of the 388 metropolitan…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Office of Minority Health today released a plan to reduce health disparities in Medicare.
The AHA and Association of American Medical Colleges Friday submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the state of Vermont’s position that the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 does not preempt the state’s law requiring that…
Join AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack on Thursday, Sept. 10 at 4 p.m. ET for the next AHA members-only Town Hall webcast. Melinda Hatton, AHA senior vice president and general counsel, and Josh Soven, AHA outside counsel and a partner at Gibson Dunn, will discuss the recently announced…
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) August 28 ruled that Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park, Kan., violated the National Labor Relations Act by denying two nurses’ requests for a union representative when they appeared before its nursing peer review committee, and by failing and refusing…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is accepting comments through Sept. 14 on its proposed star rating system for overall hospital-level quality.
In a letter published today, the AHA says an Aug. 27 article in the Wall Street Journal wrongly states that the insurance megadeals will be good for consumers because it will force hospitals to lower prices.