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The House Committee on Ways & Means early this morning reported out its part of the House legislative package to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act, while the House Energy & Commerce Committee this afternoon completed the markup of its piece of the legislation –…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued answers to Frequently Asked Questions for hospitals implementing the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice, including guidance on completing the free-text field that explains why the patient is not an inpatient. Effective March 8,…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Tennessee Department of Health to minimize any human health risk posed by an H7N9 avian flu outbreak in commercial poultry in Lincoln County, TN, the agency said yesterday.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has updated its webpage to help health care providers prepare for the Medicare Beneficiary Identifier, which will replace the Health Insurance Claim Number on transactions such as billing, eligibility status and claim status by April 2019. The…
The AHA today launched a new web resource – trustees.aha.org – as part of the association's ongoing efforts to support trustee education and governance across the hospital and health system field. The resource is designed to support good governance in the changing health care…
The AHA will host a free webinar March 16 on strategies to address rising medication costs. The event will feature a case study by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. For more information and to register, click here.
Hospitals come together to make the "healthy choice the easy choice" in Montana's Yellowstone County
Providers in Billings, Mont., came together more than 20 years ago to collaborate for a healthier community in what the AHA has described as an example of a “second generation” strategy for improving population health.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) March 13 released an estimate of the effects on health coverage of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the legislative package passed last week by the House Ways and Means and Energy & Commerce…
The House Energy & Commerce and Ways & Means committees today began marking up their respective bills to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act – collectively known as the American Health Care Act. Together, the package would repeal the ACA’s employer and individual…
In a letter today to members of Congress, the AHA, America’s Essential Hospitals, Association of American Medical Colleges, Catholic Health Association of the United States, Children’s Hospital Association, Federation of American Hospitals, and National Association of Psychiatric Health…