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The flu hospitalization rate rose last week to 86.3 per 100,000 people, although outpatient visits for flu-like illness peaked in early February and are on the decline.
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.25% in February to a seasonally adjusted 5,143,400 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL), chairman of the Health Subcommittee on Ways and Means, will speak at the AHA Annual Membership Meeting on May 8 in Washington, D.C.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will host a March 20-21 workshop in Washington, D.C.
The Campaign for Sustainable Rx Pricing released a digital and television ad urging Congress to pass the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples Act to lower drug prices.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia this week voided a CMS rule regarding how third-party payments are treated for purposes of calculating the hospital-specific limitation on Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments.
CMS Tuesday posted a list of Medicare-Severity-Diagnosis Related Groups that will be excluded from the clinical episodes of care in its Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced model.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today held the sixth in a series of hearings on the opioid crisis, which focused on state strategies to address the crisis
Cigna Corp. plans to acquire pharmacy benefit management company Express Scripps in a transaction valued at about $67 billion.
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joseph Crowley (D-NY) will speak at the AHA Annual Membership Meeting on May 7 in Washington, D.C.