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House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) today unveiled the committee’s budget plan for fiscal year 2016, which would reduce Medicare spending by $148 billion and Medicaid and other health care spending by $913 billion over 10 years. Overall, the plan would reduce spending by $5.…
Harnessing the power of information technology to improve care requires giving providers greater flexibility to deploy electronic health records, holding vendors accountable for safe, interoperable products and providing certainty on the transition to the ICD-10 coding system by implementing the…
AHA today voiced support for the Improving Access to Emergency Psychiatric Care Act (S. 599), bipartisan legislation to extend the Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Demonstration Program. The legislation would extend the demonstration through September 2016 or whenever the U.S. Department of Health…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday began mailing notices to certain hospitals participating in the Inpatient Quality Reporting program that may be subject to a reduction in their annual payment update for fiscal year 2016. The affected hospitals did not meet selected…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and State Department are helping to privately transport to the U.S. additional Americans who may have been exposed to Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, CDC said in an update Saturday. Four individuals will be placed in quarantine at the University of…
Seeking to preempt legislation, the Federal Trade Commission Friday announced it will not automatically resort to administrative litigation when its efforts to block a merger in federal court are unsuccessful, returning to an approach first adopted in 1995.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Friday temporarily withdrew guidance for state survey agencies regarding the use of blood glucose strip meters in hospitals and other health care settings, issuing revised draft guidance on the issue for public comment only.
About 16.4 million uninsured adults have gained health coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplaces and provision allowing young adults to remain on a parents plan until age 26, according to an analysis released today by the Department of Health and Human…
Hospital prices fell 0.1% in January compared to a year ago, the first such decline in at least 23 years, according to the latest economic indicators from Altarum Institute's Center for Sustainable Health Spending. The Health Care Price Index was 1.2% higher than a year ago, approaching the…