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The Trump administration will stop making cost-sharing reduction payments to health insurers, the White House announced last night. Insurers use the federal payments to reduce out-of-pocket costs for low-income individuals purchasing coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplaces. The…
The AHA's Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development has chosen as its 2018 president-elect Rose Glenn, senior vice president, chief communications and chief experience officer for Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. Glenn will become president of the organization in 2019. The society…
Inpatient prospective payment system hospitals that did not achieve meaningful use and did not receive a hardship exception in the Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program for the 2016 reporting period can apply through Nov. 30 for reconsideration of their 2018 payment adjustment. Visit…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week published its star ratings for 2018 Medicare Advantage and prescription drug plans. Approximately 44% of MA plans that offer prescription drug coverage will have an overall rating of four stars or higher in 2018, and about 52% of stand-…
President Trump today issued an executive order directing the departments of Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services to consider proposing regulations or guidance to expand the availability of association health plans, short-term limited duration insurance and health reimbursement…
New research released today by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions and Healthcare Financial Management Association offers key strategies for achieving successful mergers or affiliations.
The California Hospital Association and its regional partners have established a Hospital Workers’ Fire Relief Fund to help the more than 100 hospital employees affected by the recent wildfires in the state. The state and regional associations in California will donate $40,000 to the fund and…
The AHA will host a Nov. 1 webinar on global budget payment programs, one of nine potential strategies identified by an AHA task force last year to help ensure access to care in vulnerable communities. The webinar will spotlight MedStar Health’s journey to implement the Maryland All-Payer Model;…
Boston Medical Center (BMC) has taken to heart Hippocrates 2,500-year-old dictum: “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”BMC’s preventive food pantry makes access to nutritious food part of the medical care for low-income patients and families who don’t always…
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today held a hearing examining how covered entities use the 340B Drug Pricing Program. Established by Congress in 1992, the program mandates that drug manufacturers provide outpatient drugs to eligible health care…