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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…
AHA today urged President Obama to protect access to health care services for seniors and the disabled by not including further hospital payment reductions under Medicare in his fiscal year 2016 Federal Budget proposal. “America’s hospitals provide access to the most sophisticated and…