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A new AHA TrendWatch report calls for refinements in Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) that achieve the goal of reducing readmissions without unfairly penalizing hospitals.
Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, March 19 introduced a bill to repeal Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula for reimbursing physicians and replace it with a 0.5% payment update for five years as payments transition to a more value-based system.Details of how the legislation will be…
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) today unveiled the committee’s budget plan for fiscal year 2016, which would repeal the Affordable Care Act and adopt the president’s overall Medicare reductions of nearly $431 billion over 10 years.
The AHA and four other national hospital organizations this week expressed “profound disappointment” with a two-day workshop on health care competition convened last month by the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice.
President Obama today announced his intent to nominate David Shulkin, M.D., to serve as under secretary for health at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Carolyn Clancy, M.D., has served as interim under secretary since last June, when acting under secretary Robert Jesse, M.D., completed a…
The departments of the Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services yesterday published final rules allowing group health plans to offer certain limited benefits that wrap around eligible individual insurance, Basic Health Plan coverage or a Multi-State Plan as “excepted benefits,…
More than half of Americans (56%) have tried to get information on out-of-pocket costs before getting care, according to a new survey by Public Agenda. About 40% sought price information before a medical test, 38% before visiting a specialist, 37% before visiting a primary care doctor, and 25…
A recent cyber attack against information technology systems at health insurer Premera Blue Cross serves as another potent reminder to hospitals and other health care organizations of the importance of ongoing initiatives to prevent and protect against cybersecurity risks.
The AHA’s American Society for Healthcare Engineering Monday presented Vista Awards to three hospital teams for construction, renovation and infrastructure projects that exemplify outstanding collaboration in creating optimal health care environments. The winners are Baystate Medical Center…
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…