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House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders yesterday sent letters to nine contract pharmacies that participate in the 340B drug savings program requesting information about their participation in the program.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has identified a new cluster of presumed Ebola cases based on preliminary laboratory results, the World Health Organization announced yesterday.
The Health Resources and Services Administration yesterday awarded $2 million to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to reduce preventable maternal deaths and complications from childbirth through the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM).
James Carlin Jr. from Hackensack (NJ) University Medical Center will receive the 2018 Heart of Healthcare Award from the AHA’s Association for the Healthcare Environment at the EXCHANGE 2018 conference.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday projected that the average basic premium for a Medicare Part D prescription drug plan will decrease by $1.09 in 2019 to $32.50.
Effective Jan. 1, The Joint Commission will require accredited hospitals with at least 300 live births per year to report the percentage of infants with unexpected newborn complications among full-term newborns with no pre-existing conditions.
The AHA’s Physician Alliance, the American Organization of Nurse Executives, a subsidiary of AHA, and the American Association for Physician Leadership have released “A Model for Clinical Partnering: How Nurse and Physician Executives Use Synergy as Strategy.”
The departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury today issued a final rule that will allow consumers to buy short-term health plans to provide coverage for up to 36 months.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued final rules for inpatient rehabilitation facility, skilled nursing facility and inpatient psychiatric facility payments for fiscal year 2019.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today held the third in a series of hearings on how to reduce health care costs, which focused on reducing administrative spending.