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About 2.9% of pregnant women with symptoms and 0.3% of those without symptoms had Zika virus when tested after traveling to or from areas with active transmission, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s 0.8% of all pregnant women…
The Food and Drug Administration today issued draft guidance explaining how it intends to apply section 503A of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to drugs compounded in state-licensed hospital or health system pharmacies for use within the hospital or health system.
Physicians and teaching hospitals may review and dispute 2015 payments reported to the Open Payments program for a 45-day period that began April 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports. Applicable drug and medical device makers and group purchasing organizations must annually…
The AHA today named Maureen Swick CEO of the American Organization of Nurse Executives and AHA senior vice president of nursing effective in July, when Pamela Thompson will retire from those positions.
The American College of Surgeons has released a Statement on Principles on the responsibility of the primary surgeon during surgery. Recent news reports had raised questions about the primary surgeon initiating a second surgery before the first surgery was fully completed.
A new report by the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company looks at provider-led health plan characteristics from 2010-2014 and highlights key considerations to improve financial performance. More than 40 of 89 provider-led health plans analyzed by the firm had negative margins in…
About 5.3% of middle school students and 16% of high school students reported using electronic cigarettes in the past month when surveyed in 2015, up from 0.6% and 1.5%, respectively, in 2011, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Declines in use of…
Sufficient evidence has accumulated to infer a causal relationship between prenatal Zika virus infection and microcephaly and other severe brain anomalies, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published today by the New England Journal of Medicine. The study…
Nearly 15 million people enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program between Oct. 1, 2013 and Jan. 31, 2016, increasing total enrollment in the programs by 26.5% since the start of the first open enrollment period for the Health Insurance Marketplace, according to a report …
The AHA encourages all hospitals to submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey by April 22. The free web-based survey helps AHA gauge the impact of Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor program on hospitals and advocate for needed changes. For more information on the RACTrac initiative, visit www.…