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Almost 6.5 million people have qualified for an advance premium tax credit to purchase health insurance through HealthCare.gov during 2015 open enrollment, according to a report released yesterday by the Department of Health and Human Services. That represents 87% of people who selected or re-…
Rural health networks can apply through April 6 for a portion of $1.6 million in funding to support care coordination strategies to improve outcomes for patients with heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diabetes, the Health Resources and Services Administration announced …
A new toolkit from the AHA’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative provides a framework and resources to help hospital leaders accelerate the elimination of health care disparities and ensure their leadership teams and board members reflect the communities they serve.
Fred Gattas Jr. and Margaret Wagner Dahl will serve as chair and chair-elect, respectively, for the AHA's 2015 Committee on Governance. Gattas, who recently served as board secretary, is a trustee at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. Dahl is a board member at…
More than 100 hospitals have worked with the Wisconsin Hospital Association to improve care for more than 9,000 patients over the past three years, avoiding more than $87 million in health care costs, according to a report released today by the Wisconsin Hospital Association.
Virginia hospitals and health systems provided almost $3 billion in community benefit and other types of community support in 2013, according to a report by the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association. “It has not been an easy time for Virginia’s health care providers,…
Sharing best practices and spurring on peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the three-year AHA/Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET) Hospital Engagement Network (HEN), which ended last December.The HRET network worked with 31 state hospital associations to reduce inpatient harm and…
The AHA late Friday filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the Department of Health and Human Services in a federal lawsuit seeking to exclude all drugs with an “orphan” designation from an HHS interpretive rule expanding the 340B Drug Pricing Program to rural and cancer hospitals under…
The Government Accountability Office Friday issued a report summarizing actions by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to support the Oct. 1 transition to the ICD-10 coding system for health care claims. The findings are based on information collected from CMS and a sample of 28…
The Food and Drug Administration Friday issued final guidance on medical device data systems. The guidance confirms the agency’s intention not to enforce regulations for technologies that receive, transmit, store or display data from medical devices unless they involve active patient…