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The House June 18 passed a number of health care bills, including a set of bills that would reform the Medicare Advantage program. Included in the package of MA bills were the AHA-supported Medicare Advantage Coverage Transparency Act. H.R.
The House of Representatives this week passed a number of health care bills, including a set of bills that would reform the Medicare Advantage program. Included in the package of MA bills were the AHA-supported Medicare Advantage Coverage Transparency Act (H.R.
The Medicare Independence at Home Demonstration saved more than $25 million, or an average $3,070 per beneficiary, in its first performance year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced yesterday. The three-year demonstration is testing whether primary care services…
Overdoses from prescription and other drugs are the leading cause of injury death in the United States, resulting in more than 44,000 deaths in 2013, according to a report released this week by Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. That’s more than…
AHA’s Center for Healthcare Governance has released a free webinar exploring the state of health care governance based on results of its 2014 National Governance Survey.
The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services not to implement a new market basket specific to inpatient rehabilitation facilities until the agency can ensure it accurately reflects costs for freestanding and hospital-based IRFs.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has posted updated Ebola guidance for U.S. hospitals evaluating emergency department patients who have traveled from Sierra Leone, Guinea or Liberia in the past 21 days. The new recommendations differ for patients from Liberia, where the Ebola…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended to June 30 the application deadline for its new Oncology Care Model, which seeks to provide better and more coordinated care at a lower cost to Medicare. Physician practices and payers who submitted timely and complete letters of…
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will fund three Centers of Excellence to study how high-performing health care systems promote evidence-based practices in delivering care. The AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust affiliate is a partner in one of the centers, which will…
The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday increased the coinsurance rate in the transitional reinsurance program for the 2014 benefit year from 80% to 100%, noting that reinsurance contributions exceeded requests for reinsurance payments.