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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration last week issued revised federal guidelines for opioid treatment programs. According to the agency, the guidelines contain updated information on ways to assess and counsel patients; treatment of pregnant patients; patient…
The National Institutes of Health this week named a working group that will seek public input on the design of a research network to advance President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative.
The AHA encourages all hospitals to submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey, available today through April 17. The free web-based survey helps AHA gauge the impact of Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor program on hospitals and advocate for needed changes. For more information on the RACTrac…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., last week vowed quick action on bipartisan legislation to replace the Medicare physician sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula when the Senate reconvenes on April 13. The AHA and hospital leaders also are calling for speedy action.
“We’ll turn to it…
The Class of 2017 profiles the women and men who joined the AHA board this year. While the pace of change may vary across the country, Brian Gragnolati, senior vice president of the Johns Hopkins Health System in Baltimore, sees opportunity in the challenges facing the field.
By Jonathan Perlin, M.D. April is National Donate Life Month, when we encourage everyone to consider registering as organ, eye and tissue donors.Patients today benefit from recent advances in transplant medicine and have options to care that did not exist a decade ago. But without donors,…
The AHA yesterday urged the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to consider certain changes to its draft recommendations for the Recovery Audit Contractor program.
In a 5-4 ruling today, the Supreme Court held that parties cannot challenge directly in federal court a state’s compliance with Section 30(a) of the Medicaid Act, which requires states to reimburse providers at rates sufficient to ensure beneficiaries enjoy the same access to health care…
Hospitals paid under the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system can apply through 11:59 p.m. ET April 1 for a hardship exception under the Medicare Electronic Health Records Incentive Program. IPPS hospitals that did not attest to meaningful use of EHRs in fiscal year 2014 and do not…
Overall cancer incidence, or new cancer cases, decreased 0.5% per year between 2002 and 2011, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer. Mortality rates also continued to fall. For the first time, the report includes incidence rates for the four major molecular…