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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans to collect additional information from Qualified Health Plans in the individual and small group markets as part of the risk corridors and medical loss ratio programs, the agency announced yesterday. The agency said it needs the information…
Medicare claims processing systems are ready to accept ICD-10 claims on Oct. 1, based on results from the third ICD-10 end-to-end testing week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced yesterday. About 1,200 health care providers and billing companies submitted more than 29,…
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday issued draft guidance on how it intends to name new and previously licensed nonproprietary biological products, commonly referred to as biosimilar products. “FDA’s current thinking is that shared nonproprietary names are not appropriate…
An Arizona court this week upheld a 2013 state law expanding Medicaid coverage to low-income residents under the Affordable Care Act. Some members of the state legislature claimed that the law’s assessment on hospitals to help pay for the expansion was a tax and therefore unconstitutional…
The AHA will host a members-only webinar Sept. 15 on "Building Primary Care from the Ground Up: Partnership for Training Rural Residents in Medicine." Presenters will describe how a North Dakota critical access hospital, CHI-Mercy Medical Center, combined resources with the Family Medicine…
The AHA and its Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development affiliate will host a webcast Sept. 16 on the value and potential of social media to leverage hospital community benefit programs and patient engagement. Topics include social media platforms and their legal implications, and…
The AHA’s Center for Healthcare Governance has released a free webinar on Accountable Care Organization concepts and how Medicare ACOs can be part of a hospital organization’s strategy to move from volume to value. The webinar explores the difference between commercial and Medicare ACOs, where…
Commenting today on the proposed Outpatient Prospective Payment System rule for FY 2016, AHA said it supports the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed two-midnight policy changes.
The Health Resources and Services Administration today released proposed omnibus guidance for the 340B Drug Pricing Program in the form of a notice with a 60-day comment period. The guidance covers: covered entity eligibility; patient definition; Group Purchasing Organization prohibition;…
The National Labor Relations Board today adopted a new union-advocated standard that two separate entities are “joint employers” of the same employees if they have any degree of indirect or reserved control over those matters governing the essential terms and conditions of employment of the…