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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology will host a webinar tomorrow at 1 p.m. CDT on the proposed 2015 Edition certification criteria, standards and implementation specifications for electronic health record technology. ONC representatives will review the proposed…
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), ranking member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, will address the AHA Annual Membership Meeting during the afternoon Federal Forum Plenary on Monday, May 4. Stabenow also serves on the Senate Budget Committee. For more on the AHA meeting, May 3-6 in…
The AHA will host a members-only webinar April 29 on three new proposed rules for the Medicare Electronic Health Records Incentive Program. During the webinar, from 2-3:30 p.m.
Cook County (Minn.) North Shore Hospital Administrator Kimber Wraalstad contends that most decision makers in Washington, D.C., don’t understand what it’s like for a critical access hospital (CAH) to provide care in a rurally isolated region of the country.
Nearly 642,000 physicians and other professionals participated in the Physician Quality Reporting System in 2013, a 47% increase from 2012 and about half of those eligible to participate, according to a new report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today issued recommendations to prevent HIV and hepatitis C outbreaks among people who inject drugs. As of April 21, CDC and Indiana officials have identified 135 people newly diagnosed with HIV in a small Indiana community, most of whom reported…
About 100 employers, including hospitals, have committed to increasing access to training opportunities for front-line workers through a presidential initiative to help workers advance their skills and wages, the White House announced today at a summit on the Upskill Initiative.
May 1 is the final day that all hospitals can submit first-quarter 2015 data to the RACTrac survey. Hospitals are asked to complete the survey even if they did not experience recovery audit contractor activity during the quarter. The free web-based survey helps AHA measure the impact of Medicare's…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today released a proposed rule updating Medicare fee-for-service payments for the inpatient rehabilitation facility prospective payment system for fiscal year 2016. The regulation would implement a net payment increase of 1.7%, or $130…
The Veterans Choice Program tomorrow will begin using driving distance to determine the distance between a veteran’s residence and the nearest VA medical facility, according to an interim final rule issued today by the Department of Veterans Affairs.