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The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today approved by voice vote the Synthetic Drug Control Act (H.R. 3537). The AHA-supported legislation would give the Drug Enforcement Administration authority to stop the distribution, sale and use of additional synthetic drugs by classifying them…
Hospital-acquired conditions declined by 17% (1.3 million) between 2010 and 2013, saving an estimated 50,000 lives and $12 billion in health care costs, according to final results reported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Adverse drug events fell by 44%, pressure ulcers by 21…
Leaders of the Senate Special Committee on Aging today announced a bipartisan investigation into pharmaceutical drug pricing.
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in collaboration with the Maryland Hospital Association and AHA’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative, tomorrow will host the first in a series of free webinars on Maryland’s global budgeting system for hospital services.…
The fall issue of AHA’s Great Boards newsletter features articles on best practices for board education and governance of provider-sponsored health plans. Administered by AHA's Center for Healthcare Governance, the free quarterly newsletter examines hospital and health system governance trends…
Click here to view a video message from AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and AHA Chair-elect Designate Gene Woods, president and chief operating officer of Christus Health, on the #123forEquity Pledge to Act Campaign to eliminate health care disparities.
The AHA expressed disappointment over the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) decision to reduce hospital outpatient payment rates by 0.4% next year in its final rule for the outpatient prospective payment and ambulatory surgical center payment systems (PPS). However, in the final…
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today held a hearing on several Medicare and Medicaid bills. In a letter to the subcommittee, AHA expressed strong support for H.R.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has recalculated results for the calendar year 2013 Medicare spending per beneficiary measure after identifying an issue with data used in the calculation. Hospitals can review and correct their revised hospital-specific reports through Nov. 30, but…
The Department of Health and Human Services today announced a Nov. 20 stakeholders meeting on pharmaceutical innovation, access and affordability.