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The House of Representatives today voted 235-171 to pass the Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act, AHA-supported legislation that would standardize the merger review process for the two federal antitrust agencies. Introduced by Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX), the bill…
The Department of Labor today released its final rule narrowing the "advice" exemption for “persuader” reporting by employers and labor consultants under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959.
The AHA yesterday encouraged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to eliminate its “all-or-nothing” approach to meaningful use of electronic health records, which is “overly burdensome” and not required by statute.
The Department of Health and Human Services is looking to make meaningful use of electronic health records “more flexible and much more focused on clinical outcomes and interoperability” as it implements changes to the Medicare physician payment system under the Medicare Access and CHIP…
Expanding the Diabetes Prevention Program model to Medicare beneficiaries with prediabetes would reduce net Medicare spending and improve quality of care without limiting benefits, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced today.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute next month will issue a $22 million funding announcement soliciting studies to compare treatment strategies for lower back pain, a leading cause of disability and the most frequent reason adults seek medical care.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released roughly 1,900 diagnosis codes that will be added to the ICD-10 coding system for health care claims in fiscal year 2017. The ICD-10-CM codes are available at www.cdc.gov.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released interim guidance and additional resources for U.S.-based health care providers caring for individuals who have survived the Ebola virus disease. According to CDC, the Ebola virus can persist for several months after acute infection in…
One barrier to appropriate care for patients with substance use disorders is the Medicaid exclusion for “institutions for mental disease,” Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO) said at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing today on the heroin and opioid abuse epidemic.…
The House Judiciary Committee today held a markup to consider the Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare Act (H.R. 4771), AHA-supported legislation that would implement medical liability reforms shown to lower health care costs and make health care more accessible.…