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In a study published this week in Health Affairs, officials from the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) and Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health share lessons learned from their Advanced Illness Management model.
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today held a hearing on 12 health care bills, including one that would impact the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital program.
The Department of Veterans Affairs today finalized a rule implementing the criteria for determining when covered veterans may elect to receive necessary hospital, medical and extended care services from non-VA entities or providers under the Veterans Community Care Program, which begins June 6.
Peter Urbanowicz, chief of staff for Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, will leave the department in June, with Deputy Chief of Staff Brian Harrison promoted to fill the vacancy, the HHS announced yesterday.
Anne Arundel Medical Center of Annapolis, Md., will receive the 2019 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award July 25 at the AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego for its efforts to provide equitable care and reduce health inequalities.
Hospitals and health systems will stand together against violence June 7 by participating in #HAVhope Friday, a digital media campaign to focus national attention on ending all forms of violence.
Commenting today on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s proposed rule on interoperability, information blocking and the Health IT Certification Program, AHA urged the agency to consider ways to help patients get easy access to their data without sacrificing…
The U.S. Supreme Court today affirmed a D.C. Circuit Court decision that the Department of Health and Human Services violated the Medicare Act when it changed Medicare’s reimbursement adjustment formula for disproportionate share hospitals without providing notice and opportunity to comment.
Several Sentara hospitals cared for victims from a mass shooting Friday at the Virginia Beach (Va.) Municipal Center, four of whom were still being treated on Saturday, the Norfolk, Va.-based health system reported. “What we do in health care is so much more than just doing a job,” said …
In an evaluation of 49 top-selling brand-name drugs, 28 of the drugs available since 2012 saw an increase in insurer and out-of-pocket costs of more than 50 percent by 2017 and 16 more than doubled in price, according to a study reported Friday in JAMA Network Open.