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Hospital prices fell 0.1% in January compared to a year ago, the first such decline in at least 23 years, according to the latest economic indicators from Altarum Institute's Center for Sustainable Health Spending. The Health Care Price Index was 1.2% higher than a year ago, approaching the…
The Government Accountability Office Friday released data from its survey on sources of funds used by states to finance the nonfederal share of their Medicaid programs, including provider taxes and intergovernmental transfers. The survey was completed by all 50 states and the District of…
The Coalition to Protect America’s Health Care has extended its TV buy for another week, as Congress continues to negotiate a physician payment fix. The TV spot and this week’s schedule of placements can be found here. Large-scale print ads also are appearing at Reagan National Airport…
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation tomorrow will host the first in a series of Open Door Forums on its Next Generation Accountable Care Organization Model. The model, announced last week, is intended for ACOs that are experienced in coordinating care for populations of patients…
AHA board member Bruce Bailey’s hospital career transpired in an unexpected way.“I married a good-looking blonde whose father was a hospital CEO,” quipped Bailey, president and CEO of Georgetown Hospital System (GHS), a 298-bed, two-hospital system in coastal South Carolina.…
The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD, today admitted for treatment an American health care worker who tested positive for Ebola virus while volunteering in an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone. The hospital, which has a special high-level isolation unit staffed…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed new contracts for Medicare recovery audit contractors violate contracting requirements under the Federal Acquisition Regulations, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled this week.
The nation’s three leading credit reporting agencies have agreed to wait 180 days before reporting medical debt on a consumer’s credit report and to remove the debt from the report after it’s paid by insurance, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced this week.
Overall hospital prices increased 0.4% in February, and were 0.4% higher than a year ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Prices for the subgroup of general medical and surgical hospitals increased 0.4%, and were 0.3% higher than in February 2014, according to the BLS' Producer Price…
The Food and Drug Administration today issued final guidance for makers of reusable duodenoscopes and other reprocessed medical devices aimed at assuring that their cleaning and disinfection or sterilization instructions consistently reduce microbial contamination.