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The proportion of uninsured working-age adults declined 7.1 percentage points in 2014 among African Americans, 7 percentage points among Hispanics, 4 percentage points among Asians and 3 percentage points among whites, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and…
The Department of Health and Human Services offers meritless arguments to avoid an order to abide by the statutory deadlines for Administrative Law Judge review of Medicare claims appeals, the AHA and three hospital members told the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today, responding to the agency…
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, the nation has yet to meet 79% of a federal advisory committee’s recommendations to improve disaster preparedness for children, according to a report released today by Save the Children.
The AHA encourages all hospitals to submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey by July 24. The free web-based survey helps AHA gauge the impact of Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor program on hospitals and advocate for needed changes. For more information on the RACTrac initiative, including a…
Overall hospital prices increased 0.1% in June and were 0.7% higher than a year ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Prices for the subgroup of general medical and surgical hospitals increased 0.1%, and were 0.5% higher than in June 2014, according to the BLS Producer Price Indices,…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host two webinars this week on its proposed Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model, which would bundle payment to acute care hospitals for hip and knee replacement surgery. The 60-minute webinars, on July 15 at 1 p.m. ET and July 16…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has withdrawn its request for quotes for the next round of recovery audit contractor contracts, the agency announced July 10. The agency plans to update its Statement of Work for the RAC program and release requests for proposals soon. In the…
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine presents a framework for bringing evidence-based psychosocial interventions into clinical practice to improve outcomes for people with mental health and substance use disorders.
The Health Resources and Services Administration today awarded $94 million in grants through 11 workforce development programs for nursing, dentistry, primary care, psychology and other health professions. “We want to prepare health care workers to provide care that is effective and…
All Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies will begin offering identity protection services to their health plan members by Jan. 1, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association announced today. Identity protection companies will administer the credit monitoring, fraud detection and fraud resolution…