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The U.S. House of Representatives today voted 302-126 to reject a Trade Adjustment Assistance bill that would have provided federal job-training and other assistance to workers, firms, farmers and communities that have been hurt by foreign trade. The bill, as passed by the Senate, also would have…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday announced that it has settled appeals of outstanding Medicare inpatient status claims with more than 1,900 hospitals, representing approximately 300,000 claims, which modestly reduces the significant backlog of Medicare appeals in the…
The House late yesterday approved legislation, H.R. 2685, that included an AHA-backed amendment that would withhold funding for a controversial Labor Department policy aimed at treating hospitals participating in Tricare and certain other health care programs as federal contractors or…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is soliciting nominations for its first Learning Action Network work group, which will focus on defining a set of alternative payment model terms and an approach for tracking progress. The work group will not set or make policy, nor make formal…
The Department of Health and Human Services today announced it has selected nine health departments and partner hospitals to serve as regional treatment centers for patients with Ebola or other highly infectious diseases. Each center will receive approximately $3.25 million during the five-year…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response said today it has awarded a $1.8 million contract to OraSure Technologies Inc., in Bethlehem, PA, to develop an Ebola virus diagnostic test for use in a doctor’s office,…
Growing use of synthetic marijuana cannabinoids is to blame for a 229% increase in suspected poisonings earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported today. Between January and May 2015, U.S. poison centers in 48 states reported receiving 3,572 calls related to…
AHA’s Physician Leadership Forum will host a complimentary webinar July 1 at 3:30 p.m. ET to review the changes to physician payment contained in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 and share how one organization is preparing for alternative payment models and value-…
The House late yesterday approved legislation, H.R. 2685, that included an AHA-backed amendment that would withhold funding for a controversial Labor Department policy aimed at treating hospitals participating in Tricare and certain other health care programs as federal contractors or…
The House voted 397-32 on June 11 to strike the use of additional Medicare sequestration cuts in 2024 to pay for the cost of extending the Trade Assistance Adjustment program.The provision, contained in the Trade Preferences Extension Act, would replace the Medicare sequester extension approved…