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The proportion of U.S. adults without health insurance has declined about 5.6 percentage points since 2013, to 11.7%, according to an analysis released today by Gallup. Based on the Gallup-Healthways Well-being Index survey for the first half of 2015, the uninsured rate fell a collective 7.1…
Inpatient rehabilitation facilities must submit first-quarter 2015 data for five IRF Quality Reporting Program measures by Aug. 15 to avoid a 2 percentage point reduction in their annual payment update in fiscal year 2017. For more information, visit www.cms.gov.
The AHA’s Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management today presented its 2015 George R. Gossett Leadership Award to Brent Johnson, president and CEO of group purchasing organization Amerinet Inc. Before joining Amerinet, Johnson served as vice president of strategic…
More than 4,600 programs offering Navigators, Certified Application Counselors and other assisters helped an estimated 5.9 million consumers during open enrollment in the 2015 Health Insurance Marketplace, according to a new survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Most consumers who sought…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has updated its recommendations for flu vaccination for the 2015-2016 flu season. The recommendations remove the preference for live attenuated influenza vaccine for healthy children aged 2-8, and…
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.32% in July to a seasonally adjusted 4,899,800 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. That's 15,700 more people than in June and 122,800 more than a year ago. Without the seasonal adjustment, which removes the effect of fluctuations due…
The AHA’s Hospital Awards for Volunteer Excellence (HAVE) program has recognized outstanding volunteer programs across the nation for more than 30 years. The search is now on for nominees for the 2016 HAVE Award.
The AHA seeks nominations through Oct. 9 for the awards. Hospital CEOs and directors…
The Federal Communications Commission today approved rules to permit unlicensed devices to operate on the same channel as the Wireless Medical Telemetry Service used by hospitals for patient monitoring devices. While the commission provided a mechanism for increasing the size of the adopted…
Anthem’s proposed acquisition of Cigna and Aetna’s proposed acquisition of Humana have “the very real potential” to substantially reduce competition and the insurers’ willingness to partner with health care providers and consumers in transforming care, AHA told the…
Eight national hospital organizations, including the AHA, today urged the Department of Health and Human Services to immediately release a final rule easing “meaningful use” requirements for fiscal years 2015-2017 under the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive…