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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.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans diagnosed with cancer survive for five or more years, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among the most common cancer sites, the five-year relative survival rate (compared with comparable cancer-free persons)…
A new AHA guide offers hospital leaders a model for hospital-based violence intervention that can be tailored to each community's unique needs. “As the location where many victims of violence seek medical treatment, hospitals and health care systems are uniquely positioned to address violence…
The AHA today released a new report detailing the 24/7 role of America’s hospitals and the challenges threatening this essential part of the nation’s health care infrastructure.
The Internal Revenue Service yesterday posted guidance finalizing, with modifications, the correction and disclosure procedures under which certain failures to meet requirements of section 501(r) of the Affordable Care Act will be excused. Under the final Section 501(r) regulations for…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday updated an online tool that produces health profiles for all U.S. counties. The profiles show how each county compares with peer counties on certain indicators of mortality, morbidity, health care access and quality, health behaviors,…
Hospitals participating in the Florida Hospital Association’s Hospital Engagement Network improved care for more than 27,500 patients over three years, avoiding an estimated $170 million in health care costs, the association reported this week. Among other improvements, the 77 hospitals…
Rhode Island hospitals contributed $6.9 billion to the state's economy in 2013, according to a new report by the Hospital Association of Rhode Island. The state’s hospitals employ nearly 20,000 health care professionals and support another 21,400 jobs through their economic activity, the…
A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers March 10 introduced legislation that the AHA said would improve the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) by factoring sociodemographic status into hospital readmission rates.
Sens. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Reps. Jim Renacci (R-OH) and Eliot Engel (D-NY) today introduced AHA-supported legislation (S. 688/H.R. 1343) that would require the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to adjust a hospital’s performance in the Medicare Hospital…