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Recent events – including carrier turnover, plan terminations and pricing volatility – suggest that the individual health insurance market is “still in flux” after the close of the third open enrollment period for the public exchanges, according to a new report by…
Every Oregon hospital has volunteered to provide cost estimates for scheduled hospital procedures within three business days, the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems announced yesterday. The policy will primarily help uninsured and out-of-network patients, since most insured…
House Ways and Means Committee leaders today unveiled the Helping Hospitals Improve Patient Care Act (H.R. 5273), bipartisan legislation containing numerous provisions affecting hospitals. AHA staff are reviewing the bill, which the committee could markup as soon as next week.
The American Organization of Nurse Executives today presented its Distinguished Special Award for Nursing to Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA) for her commitment to nursing and creating a healthier America. One of five nurses in Congress, Capps serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and co-chairs…
Pennsylvania hospitals contributed nearly $115 billion to the economy in 2015, $4 billion more than in 2014, The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) reports. Those contributions include supporting more than 625,000 direct and indirect jobs, 34,000 more than in 2014.
Emily Friedman, an independent writer, public speaker, teacher and health policy and ethics analyst based in Chicago, died Sunday after a brief illness. She was 68. Friedman was a contributing editor of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, published by the AHA’s Health Forum subsidiary,…
Chuck Lazar, senior designer for AHA’s Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, recently received a Peter Lisagor Award from the Society of Professional Journalists’ Chicago Headline Club.
The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) will host its third National Summit on Advanced Illness Care Sept. 20-21 in Washington, D.C. AHA is a co-sponsor of the event, which brings together national leaders in advanced illness care. For more information or to register, visit www.ctacsummit.…
The AHA today expressed support for draft legislation in the Senate that would eliminate the “all-or-nothing approach” to meaningful use under the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records Incentive Programs.
The AHA yesterday urged the Internal Revenue Service to publish guidance affirming that hospitals may participate in accountable care organizations without generating a tax cost or incurring “the catastrophic loss” of their tax-exempt status.