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The AHA has extended to July 16 the deadline for clinical teams to apply to participate in its 12-month virtual High-Value Care Collaborative.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced that $10.4 billion in risk adjustment transfers for benefit year 2017 are on hold until certain litigation over the risk adjustment methodology is resolved.
The 340B drug savings program must be reformed, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said today at a 340B conference in Washington, D.C.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will allow participants in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced model to retroactively withdraw all or some episode initiators and clinical episodes from the model in March 2019, the agency announced Friday.
The National Center for Healthcare Leadership will present its 2018 Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award to Nancy Howell Agee, president and CEO of Carilion Clinic and 2018 AHA chair.
The Food and Drug Administration has issued final guidance revising its recommendations for testing donated whole blood and blood components for Zika virus.
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.21% in June to a seasonally adjusted 5,175,800 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
The nine-month program strategically aligns with AHA's Value Initiative to provide training in leadership and value-based strategies to tackle the key issues and disruptors affecting health care affordability and cost.
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today posted more than a dozen bills and discussion drafts related to the 340 drug savings program as it prepares to hold a July 11 hearing on improving the program.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released final performance feedback for Merit-based Incentive Payment System participants in performance year 2017.