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The House Budget Committee last night voted 20-16 to approve a Republican budget plan for fiscal year 2017, which would reduce Medicare spending by $449 billion and Medicaid and other health care spending by $1.03 trillion over 10 years. All Democrats, joined by two Republicans, voted against…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Office of Minority Health today released a tool showing geographic, racial and ethnic variation in hospitalizations, emergency department visits and readmissions for Medicare beneficiaries with certain chronic conditions, as well as variation…
Hospitals will not be able to submit fourth-quarter 2015 data to the hospital inpatient and outpatient quality reporting programs through March 21 because the Health Care Quality Information System is down for extended maintenance, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced…
The nation cannot lower health care costs without addressing chronic disease, according to a white paper released today by the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease. About half of adults aged 45 to 64 have more than one chronic condition, the paper notes.
Hospital representatives are invited to learn more about recent policy and legal activities impacting the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor program and review results from the AHA's latest RACTrac survey during a webinar on March 22 at 2 p.m. ET.
The American Organization of Nurse Executives on March 31 will present its 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award to Kathleen Sanford, senior vice president and chief nursing officer at Catholic Health Initiatives, during the AONE annual meeting in Fort Worth, TX.
The Class of 2018 profiles the women and men who joined the AHA board this year.Patients want reliable, understandable information about the cost and quality of their care, says AHA board member David Entwistle, CEO of the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics (UUHC) in Salt Lake City.Openly…
Peter Boling, M.D., learned 32 years ago that the doctor’s office or hospital isn’t always the best place to treat elderly patients – not when they suffer from chronic illnesses or infirmities that make it a struggle getting out.In 1984, Boling started doing house calls as part of…
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today approved the Mental Health Reform Act (S. 2680). Among other provisions, the bill would establish a chief medical officer at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to promote the use of evidence-based…
Bigger is not better when it comes to the proposed mergers of health insurers Aetna and Humana and Anthem and Cigna, a panel of consumer and advocacy representatives said today, citing the potential for higher prices, lower quality and diminished service for consumers.