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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today issued updated guidance regarding personal protective equipment for health care personnel caring for suspected and confirmed Ebola patients in U.S. health care facilities.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced a four-year extension of its Initiative to Reduce Avoidable Hospitalizations among Nursing Facility Residents, which will allow current participants to apply to test a new payment model.
Four national hospital organizations, including the AHA, yesterday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to suspend plans to implement Oct. 1 an inpatient quality reporting measure for severe sepsis and septic shock management that conflicts with the tenets of effective…
Medicare Accountable Care Organizations qualified for more than $422 million in shared savings in 2014 by meeting quality standards and their savings threshold, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced yesterday. Eleven Pioneer ACOs earned $82 million in shared savings and…
Hospital representatives are invited to learn more about recent policy activity impacting the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor program and review results from the AHA's latest RACTrac survey during a webinar on Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 2 p.m. ET. The free web-based survey helps AHA gauge the…
The District of Columbia federal court cannot properly resolve hospitals’ legal challenge to a 0.2% rate cut by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services by giving the agency another opportunity to impose the cut for fiscal year 2014, hospital parties told the court in a brief …
There is little or no competition in Medicare Advantage markets in 97% of U.S. counties, according to a study released today by the Commonwealth Fund. Among 2,933 counties with at least 10 MA plan enrollees in 2012, only one county qualified as a competitive market and 80 as moderately…
Hospitals are working with a wide variety of community partners to promote population health, according to a recent survey conducted by the AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust and Association for Community Health Improvement with the Public Health Institute. About nine in 10…
The prevalence of narrow physician networks in the Health Insurance Marketplaces varied widely by state in 2014, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. The study considers networks narrow if 25% or fewer…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response has released a toolkit to help health care providers prepare to address the unique needs of homeless individuals in a disaster or public health emergency.