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The AHA, Association of American Medical Colleges, America’s Essential Hospitals, and Federation of American Hospitals today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to share additional information with hospitals and the public about how accurately its overall hospital quality star…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today suspended changes to its billing process for Partial Hospitalization Program services that were scheduled to begin July 1. The changes to the agency’s Integrated Outpatient Code Editor would have enforced the program’s minimum…
The Federal Trade Commission yesterday dropped its administrative challenge to a proposed merger between Cabell Huntington Hospital and St. Mary’s Medical Center in Huntington, WV, citing state approval of a cooperative agreement between the hospitals and a new state law on hospital…
A House Appropriations subcommittee today approved by voice vote legislation that would provide $161.6 billion in discretionary funding for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and related agencies in fiscal year 2017.
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today held a hearing on draft legislation that would create a new state option in Medicaid to provide a health home for medically complex children.
The AHA July 7 and three other national hospital groups called on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to examine the “serious flaws” in the agency’s hospital quality “star ratings” methodology.
“Our continued review of the limited information available to us has raised serious…
Hospitals with different issues and concerns find something they like in the House-passed Helping Hospitals to Improve Patient Care Act, H.R. 5273 – and hope the Senate will make consideration of the bill a priority. But an abbreviated election-year legislative calendar could possibly push…
The AHA Wednesday expressed “extreme dismay” with the provisions for new off-campus hospital outpatient departments contained in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) outpatient prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule for 2017.
Brainy Camps is a funny name. But this summer camp is serious about teaching kids with special needs to live wisely.Brainy Camps does more than allow children to experience bunk beds and rope courses every summer. It has helped children with chronic illness learn how to control their disease by…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today proposed to update hospital outpatient prospective payment system rates by 1.55% in calendar year 2017 compared to CY 2016.