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The Department of Health and Human Services published a final rule requiring retail pharmacies, which include some hospital-owned pharmacies, to implement a modification to the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs D.0 Standard to identify “partial fill” prescriptions on health care…
he Kansas Hospital Association has selected as its next president and CEO Chad Austin, who currently serves as executive vice president and will assume the new role in September.
Centene Corporation has completed its acquisition of WellCare Health Plans.
The Government Accountability Office said in a report that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should determine the extent to which state Medicaid programs comply with federal requirements to cover medication-assisted treatment in all formats, and take actions as appropriate to ensure…
Health care providers used Z codes to document social determinants of health for 467,136 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2017, according to a new report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a Jan. 29 Listening Session to gather feedback to improve processes and interactions with Medicare administrative contractors related to operations, technology, business functions, beneficiary quality of care and customer service experience…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced plans to combine and standardize its quality compare tools for hospitals, long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes, physicians, home health, hospice and dialysis providers so users can access the same…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a second person in the U.S. tested positive for the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
The World Health Organization said it will not declare a public health emergency of international concern at this time in regards to the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which has infected hundreds and killed at least 17 people.
The FDA alerted health care providers to cybersecurity vulnerabilities in certain GE Healthcare clinical information central stations and telemetry servers that may allow an attacker to remotely take control of these medical devices and silence, generate and interfere with alarms for connected…