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AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to make significant revisions to some of its proposed fiscal year 2024 policies for long-term care hospitals, saying the proposed payment reductions would harm “one of Medicare’s most severely ill patient populations and the entire…
Commenting today on the fiscal year 2024 inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule, AHA urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to use its authority to adjust the market basket update to account for what the agency missed in the FY 2022 market basket forecast and eliminate…
The first data on the safety of a third mRNA COVID-19 vaccine dose among young children show that a third dose is safe for children ages 6 months to 5 years old, similar to findings for doses one and two.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services June 8 announced plans to test a new Medicare and Medicaid primary care model in eight states beginning in July 2024.
The Federal Trade Commission June 8 released for public comment a notice of proposed changes to breach notification requirements for entities that collect health information but are not covered by HIPAA’s privacy and security requirements.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services June 7 finalized a policy governing the treatment of Medicare Part C days when calculating a hospital’s disproportionate patient percentage for discharges prior to Oct. 1, 2013, in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Azar v. Allina…
Mergers and acquisitions are important tools that some hospitals use to manage financial pressures and increase access to care for patients, AHA told the Senate Finance Committee in a statement submitted for a hearing June 8 on consolidation and corporate ownership in health care.
Communicating information is critical during emergencies and disasters.
The Food and Drug Administration authorized for marketing the first at-home over-the-counter test for COVID-19 using a traditional premarket review pathway rather than emergency use authorities.
The AHA is pushing back against a recent Health Affairs article that uses flawed, debunked methodology in an attempt to undermine hospitals through preconceived notions of how the field’s finances are managed.