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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today issued its long-term care hospital prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year 2016. The rule proposes a 2.7% market-basket update, a 0.6% cut for productivity and an additional 0.2% cut as mandated by the Affordable Care…
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission yesterday issued a proposed rule describing how Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to employer wellness programs that are part of group health plans. The rule will be published in Monday’s Federal Register, and comments will…
While making important contributions, a new report by the National Academy of Social Insurance proposing principals and policy options to address pricing power in health care markets “nonetheless assumes that hospital realignment is about cementing the past not preparing for the future,…
An estimated 15 million U.S. adults gained health coverage between September 2013 and March 2015, according to the Urban Institute's latest Health Reform Monitoring Survey. The proportion of uninsured working-age adults declined 7.5 percentage points over the period, to 10.1%, the survey estimates…
About 4% of middle school students and 13% of high school students reported using electronic cigarettes in the past month when surveyed in 2014, about triple the rate for both groups in 2013, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Both middle and high…
When it comes to bundling payments for post-acute care, now is the time for testing and learning rather than adoption and implementation, AHA told the House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee today in a statement submitted for a hearing on the Bundling and Coordinating Post-Acute Care…
AHA yesterday urged the Senate Finance Committee to retain certain key tax code provisions related to 501(c)(3) hospitals as it develops recommendations for reforming the nation’s tax code.
President Obama Thursday signed into law the “Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act,” H.R. 2, legislation to permanently replace the flawed Medicare physician sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. The Senate April 14 voted 92-8 to pass the bill, which cleared the House on March…
Claims about hospital merger effects often rely on outdated data that do not reflect today’s dynamic market conditions, according to a new study.
Medicare spending per beneficiary grew just 0.2% in 2013, according to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services. That’s down from an average 1.8% growth between 2009 and 2012 and an average 5.9% growth between 2000 and 2008. “This has resulted in a new estimate…