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The Senate next week could consider the “Trade Promotion Authority” bill, which partly would pay for the cost of extending the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program by imposing additional sequestration cuts on Medicare.TAA is a program that, among other things, provides tax credits…
Hospital and health system leaders from across the country are coming to Washington, D.C., for the AHA Annual Membership Meeting, May 3-6, and to carry hospitals’ advocacy message of relief, reform and resources to their legislators and staff on Capitol Hill.
Car accidents are the leading cause of death for young Americans. At JPS Health Network, a Level 1 trauma center in Tarrant County, Texas, about 10% of all its traumas are young adults who have been in car accidents – many of which involve alcohol.To help educate high school students about…
An Institute of Medicine committee today recommended 15 core measures, or “vital signs,” and 32 related priority measures for tracking U.S.
In a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal, AHA President and CEO Rich Umbdenstock responds to a recent op-ed piece on hospital mergers and acquisitions.
The National Institutes of Health today named Eliseo Pérez-Stable, M.D., director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Pérez-Stable is expected to join the institute in September from the University of California San Francisco, where he directs the…
Colorado hospitals and obstetrics providers are collaborating on a two-year initiative to reduce preterm and low-birthweight deliveries to no more than 9.6% and 7.8% of live births, respectively, the Colorado Hospital Association announced last week.
Alabama Hospital Association President and CEO Mike Horsley recently announced he will retire at the end of this year. The former commissioner of the Alabama Department of Mental Health and the Alabama Medicaid Agency began his tenure at AlaHA in 1991. “Mike has been an invaluable asset for…
May 1 is the final day that all hospitals can submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey. Hospitals are asked to complete the survey even if they did not experience recovery audit contractor activity during the first quarter of this year. The free web-based survey helps AHA measure the impact of…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late Friday issued its inpatient psychiatric facility proposed rule for fiscal year 2016. The rule would increase IPF rates by 1.6% in FY 2016 compared to FY 2015, after accounting for inflation and other adjustments. Specifically, the proposed…