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Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, IL, will receive the 2016 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize on Sunday for its leadership and innovation in quality improvement and safety. Finalist Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Hospital in Houston also will be honored, and Our Lady of the Lake Regional…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services projects national health spending will grow an average 5.8% between 2015 and 2025, unchanged from last year’s 10-year estimate, according to a report published online today by Health Affairs. Spending grew a projected 5.5% in 2015, up from…
The Senate Finance Committee today held a hearing to examine how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposes to implement physician payment reforms under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015.
Sens. John Thune (R-SD), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Mike Enzi (R-WY), Pat Roberts (R-KS), Richard Burr (R-NC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) today introduced the Electronic Health Record Regulatory Relief Act (S. 3173), legislation that would provide regulatory flexibility and hardship relief to hospitals…
The House Ways and Means Committee today approved legislation (H.R. 5713) that would extend the 25% Rule relief that has been in place for long-term care hospitals. The nine-month extension would apply to LTCH discharges between Oct.1, 2016 and June 30, 2017. Among other provisions, the bill would…
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine suggests criteria and methods that could be used to account for social risk factors in Medicare value-based purchasing programs.
The Campaign for Sustainable Rx Pricing yesterday held a Capitol Hill briefing and panel discussion on market-based solutions to the nation’s soaring prescription drug prices.
Three programs that expand the reach of palliative and end-of-life care will receive 2016 Circle of Life Awards Monday at the Health Forum-AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego. They are: Bon Secours Palliative Medicine, Richmond, VA; Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence at the University of…
The Senate Finance Committee today held a hearing on ways to improve and reform the Stark physician self-referral law. Witnesses unanimously recommended that the compensation portion of the Stark law be removed. “The Stark Law imposes substantial limits on a hospital’s ability to…
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today held a hearing on legislation to strengthen the national trauma system. One proposal, the Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medicines Act (H.R. 4365), would clarify that medications governed by the Controlled Substances Act may be…