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The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and National Institutes of Health will host a conference Aug. 10-11 in New York on translating Hurricane Sandy research into practice. The agencies funded a series of research grants that examine long-term…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will allow hospitals participating in the Medicare Electronic Health Record program for the first time in fiscal year 2015 to attest to meaningful use between now and Aug. 14, the agency advised the AHA. CMS previously intended to require these…
Hospitals may use the names of practice groups or departments, instead of individual providers (e.g., physicians), to establish a list of providers delivering care in the hospital, according to a notice issued Friday by the Internal Revenue Service. In a final rule issued last Dec.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday issued a proposed rule that would increase overall Medicare payments to end-stage renal disease facilities by 0.3% in calendar year 2016. Hospital-based facilities would see a 0.5% increase.
Wait times for health care appointments vary widely in the United States, ranging from same day service to several months, according to a report released today by the Institute of Medicine. Causes for delays include mismatched supply and demand, the current provider-focused approach to…
The U.S. Department of Justice and Michigan Attorney General’s Office last week filed a civil antitrust lawsuit alleging that four hospital systems in adjacent counties violated the Sherman Act and state law by agreeing to allocate territories for the marketing of competing health care…
The AHA-affiliated Health Research & Educational Trust video on preventing dialysis-related infections through patient engagement has won the grand prize in the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology Film Festival. The video highlights ways for clinicians to…
Reps. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) and Dave Loebsack (D-IA) last night introduced AHA-supported legislation (H.R. 2878) that would extend through calendar year 2015 the enforcement delay on direct supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services provided in critical access hospitals and rural…
Accountable care organizations participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program in 2014 or later may apply in July to participate in the ACO Investment Model, which offers prepaid shared savings to encourage ACOs to form in rural and underserved areas. Hospital participants must be critical…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services anticipates that the July update to the Hospital Compare website will include performance data reported voluntarily by critical access hospitals, the agency told AHA, quickly responding to an AHA letter expressing “deep disappointment” that the…