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Stephen Shortell, a leading health policy educator and researcher, will receive the Health Research & Educational Trust's 2015 TRUST Award at the Health Forum/AHA Leadership Summit July 23 in San Francisco. Shortell is the Blue Cross of California distinguished professor of health policy…
AHA President and CEO Rich Umbdenstock and Kevin Lofton, CEO of Catholic Health Initiatives in Englewood, CO, will receive 2015 Gold Medal Awards from the American College of Healthcare Executives, ACHE announced yesterday.
The AHA invites applications through Jan. 23 for the 2015 Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership. Named after AHA President Emeritus Dick Davidson, the annual award honors a state, regional or metropolitan hospital association that demonstrates exceptional…
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission today announced its final recommendation that Congress increase Medicare payment rates for the hospital inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems by 3.25% in 2016.
AHA's Hospitals & Health Networks magazine has launched its 2015 Most Wired Survey, which hospitals can complete through March 15. The annual survey measures information technology adoption, implementation and use in four areas: infrastructure; business and administrative management; clinical…
Palmetto Health in Columbia, SC, today received the 2014 Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service for its broad-based efforts to improve the lives of the most vulnerable members of its community. The Baxter International Foundation, AHA and Health Research & Educational…
The number of working-age U.S. adults without health insurance fell from 37 million (20%) in 2010 to 29 million (16%) by the second half of 2014, according to the Commonwealth Fund’s latest Biennial Health Insurance Survey. Conducted from July to December 2014, the survey found declines in…
Nearly 6.8 million individuals and families selected a health plan (or were automatically re-enrolled) through the federally-facilitated Health Insurance Marketplace between Nov. 15 and Jan. 9, according to preliminary data released yesterday by the Department of Health and Human Services.…
The Food and Drug Administration will discuss the recent recall of simulated sodium chloride intravenous solutions by Wallcur LLC during a stakeholder call tomorrow at 12 p.m. ET. Speakers will include officials from the FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To access the call,…
The Internal Revenue Service should extend its new guidance on private business use of tax-exempt bond financed facilities by Medicare accountable care organizations to ACO-type arrangements with non-Medicare payers, AHA told the agency in comments submitted today. According to the interim…