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The American Medical Association and 16 other health care organizations, including the AHA, today released a set of 21 principles for ensuring that prior authorization requirements do not hinder patient access to care.
The AHA seeks hospital and health system trustees to serve on its Committee on Governance, Regional Policy Boards, and other governing councils and committees beginning in 2018. Interested trustees are invited to view the Invitation for Involvement and submit an application through Feb.…
The Senate Finance Committee today held a confirmation hearing for Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), President Trump’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has updated its Medicare claims processing manual to include guidance on implementing the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice, a standard notice that all hospitals and critical access hospitals must provide effective March 8 to all Medicare…
AHA's Hospitals & Health Networks magazine last week launched its 2017 Most Wired Survey, which hospitals can complete through March 15. The annual survey measures information technology adoption, implementation and use in four areas: infrastructure; business and administrative management;…
Kansas hospitals directly employ 84,421 people and support more than 74,000 additional jobs in other sectors, according to a new report from the Kansas Hospital Association. This employment generates nearly $9 billion in income, more than $3 billion in retail sales and more than $200 million…
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Jan. 23 prohibited two of the nation’s largest health insurers from merging, concluding that the proposed merger of Aetna and Humana was likely to substantially lessen competition for individual Medicare Advantage plans in all 364…
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia today prohibited two of the nation’s largest health insurers from merging, concluding that the proposed merger of Aetna and Humana was likely to substantially lessen competition for individual Medicare Advantage plans in all 364 counties…
President Trump late Friday issued an executive order designed to “ease the burden” of the Affordable Care Act, according to Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a Feb. 9 webinar on its new payment model to bundle payment to acute care hospitals for heart attack and cardiac bypass surgery services beginning in July 2017.