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Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, will address the AHA Annual Membership Meeting during the afternoon Federal Forum Plenary on Monday, May 8. Burgess also serves on the House Committee on Rules. For more on the AHA meeting, May 7-10 in…
Join AHA and its American Organization of Nurse Executives subsidiary for a National Hospital Week and National Nurses Week Twitter chat on Thursday, May 11 at 11 a.m. ET.
Hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations can sign up through May 12 to host an intern for this year’s Institute for Diversity in Health Management Summer Enrichment Program, which begins June 5 and runs through August. IFD staff will help match the organizations with…
Reps. Joseph Crowley (D-NY) and Ryan Costello (R-PA) yesterday introduced AHA-supported legislation that would add 15,000 Medicare-funded residency positions to alleviate physician shortages that threaten patients’ access to care. The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act (H.R. 2267)…
The House Appropriations Committee yesterday released legislation that would provide discretionary funding for the federal government through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year. The bill includes $73.5 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services, a $2.8 billion increase from FY…
The age-adjusted death rate declined 25% for black Americans and 14% for white Americans between 1999 and 2015, reducing the overall disparity between black and white death rates from 33% to 16%, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among…
The Department of Veterans Affairs yesterday expanded its access and quality tool to include certain inpatient quality data for every VA medical center. Released last month, the tool shows how VA medical centers compare with regional and national averages and non-VA hospitals in their area on…
The QualityNet portal is accepting Quality Reporting Document Architecture Category I files for electronic clinical quality measure reporting for the calendar year 2017 Inpatient Quality Reporting and Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs. Hospitals and eligible professionals can use…
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), ranking member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, will address the AHA Annual Membership Meeting during the morning Federal Forum Plenary on Tuesday, May 9. Stabenow also serves on the Senate Budget Committee. For more on the AHA meeting, May 7-10 in…
Average readmissions penalties in the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program doubled in the first five years of the program, from 0.29% in 2013 to 0.6% in 2017, according to a study published today in Health Affairs. “The penalty burden was greater in hospitals that were urban, major teaching…