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The American College of Emergency Physicians and Medical Association of Georgia this week filed a federal lawsuit seeking to compel Anthem's Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia to rescind a policy that retroactively denies coverage for emergency patients.
A new study involving clinicians using electronic health records to perform certain common tasks found that the design, development and implementation of these systems should be improved to make them easier to use by clinicians and safer for patients.
The House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee yesterday held a hearing on modernizing the Stark Law to facilitate value-based care. Enacted in 1989, the law generally prohibits physicians from referring certain Medicare patients to an entity in which they or an immediate family member have a…
The AHA today discussed the need to reduce the regulatory burden on providers to improve patient care during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Affairs hearing.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar today named Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation Director Adam Boehler to also serve as his senior advisor for value-based transformation and innovation.
ECRI Institute plans to continue providing the National Guideline Clearinghouse to the health care community this fall.
Navicent Health of Macon, GA, will receive the 2018 AHA Equity of Care Award July 27 at the AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego.
The AHA’s American Society for Health Care Engineering presented its 2018 Crystal Eagle award to George Thomas, former director of plant and engineering at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, during its 55th Annual Conference and Technical Exhibition July 15-18 in Seattle.
AHA today urged the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to reconsider its decision to shut down the National Guidelines Clearinghouse.
The AHA, Association of American Medical Colleges and America’s Essential Hospitals today said they expect to “refile promptly in district court” their lawsuit challenging a nearly 30% Medicare payment reduction for many hospitals in the 340B drug savings program.