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Enrollment in private health insurance plans remained concentrated among a small number of issuers in 2015 and 2016
The USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy today convened a panel of policymakers and stakeholders, including the AHA, to discuss its newly released analysis detailing policy approaches to eliminate surprise out-of-network billing and propose solutions.
In a letter today to Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., AHA responds to a recent request from the senator for input regarding cybersecurity in the health care sector.
Nearly 70 organizations, including the AHA, today urged congressional leaders to advance the House-passed Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness & Advancing Innovation Act (H.R. 269), legislation that would reauthorize hospital and other federal emergency preparedness programs.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services next month will begin accepting applications to participate in its second cohort of the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced Model starting in January 2020.
The Department of Health and Human Services this week awarded $487 million in fiscal year 2019 grants to help states and territories increase access to medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder and reduce opioid overdose deaths.
The Health Resources and Services Administration yesterday awarded $100 million in grants to improve infant mortality rates and maternal health outcomes in vulnerable communities.
Health care workers who face the complexities of working with big data and population health must remain vigilant to potential public health threats and continue to reach across the aisle to fight injustice, Mona Hanna-Attisha, M.D., a pediatrician, professor and public health advocate who exposed…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday released a report and appendix providing additional information on clinician participation and performance in the 2017 Quality Payment Program.
More than two-thirds of air ambulance transports for patients with private insurance were out-of-network in 2017, putting patients at financial risk for the difference charged, according to a report released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office