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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today announced final changes to the Medicare Advantage and Part D prescription drug programs for 2016, which will increase payments by a net 1.25%, on average. CMS had proposed reducing payments by an average of 0.95%. When combined with…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late this afternoon issued a proposed rule that would address the application of certain requirements set forth in the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 to Medicaid alternative benefit plans, the Children's Health Insurance…
Requiring critical access hospitals that are less than 15 miles from another hospital to revert to the hospital prospective payment system would generate modest savings for Medicare but likely be disruptive to the communities that depend on these hospitals for their health care, according to a…
States expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act are realizing savings and revenue gains as a result, according to a study by Manatt Health Solutions released today by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The Connecticut Hospital Association testified today against state legislation proposed by Gov. Dannel Malloy that would allow municipalities to levy property taxes on any off-campus property owned by a hospital.
Thursday is National Alcohol Screening Day, sponsored annually by Screening for Mental Health Inc. to bring attention to the needs of those with alcohol use disorders and their families. For more information and a promotional toolkit, visit http://mentalhealthscreening.org/programs/nasd.
The AHA today expressed concern that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s “roadmap” to achieve nationwide interoperability “is not sufficiently grounded in an assessment of present realities or focused enough on the steps that will enable public and private…
About half of the nation’s more than 5,000 hospital laboratories were reporting notifiable conditions to public health agencies using electronic communications protocols as of last April, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While only 479 were…
International travelers are bringing a multidrug-resistant intestinal illness to the United States, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Shigella sonnei bacteria sickened 243 people in 32 states and Puerto Rico between May 2014 and February 2015 as…
Nebraska could receive more than $2.1 billion in federal Medicaid funding over five years and avoid $1 billion in state spending over 10 years if state lawmakers were to approve legislation to help nearly 80,000 low-income adults obtain health coverage through Medicaid, according to a new…