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The AHA today urged the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to provide greater detail about the characteristics and metrics used to assess the standards identified as the “best available” in the draft Interoperability Standards Advisory.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission today reported on its ongoing development of a post-acute payment system prototype, the first stage in a multi-step process to replace the current prospective payment systems for home health, skilled nursing, inpatient rehabilitation and long-term care…
Twenty communities will compete to sign up more of their eligible uninsured residents for coverage in the Health Insurance Marketplaces this open enrollment period, the White House announced today.
An estimated 28.5 million U.S. residents lacked health insurance in the first six months of 2015, 16.3 million fewer than in 2013, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The proportion of residents who were uninsured when interviewed for the National…
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.36% in October to a seasonally adjusted 4,963,200 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. That's 17,800 more people than in September and 166,800 more than a year ago. Without the seasonal adjustment, which removes the effect of…
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee last night voted 18-12 to approve a substitute amendment to the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act (H.R. 2646), legislation authored by Reps. Tim Murphy (R-PA) and Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) to reform elements of the nation’s…
The AHA today voiced support for the Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed rule on nondiscrimination for health programs and activities, but urged the agency to clarify that differential treatment based on scientific evidence and common sense approaches to organizing care would…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week announced a competition to recognize hospitals and managed care organizations for innovative and successful strategies to prevent venous thromboembolism, blood clots occurring as deep vein thrombosis and/or pulmonary embolism. The agency…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has partnered with the state of New York to test a new payment and integrated care model for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities who are enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid.
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and AHA Chair-elect Designate Gene Woods, president and chief operating officer of CHRISTUS Health, this week released a short video explaining the #123forEquity Pledge to Act Campaign to eliminate health care disparities.