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Ann Schumacher, president of CHI Health Immanuel Medical Center in Omaha, NE, is 2017 council chair of the AHA’s Constituency Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services. With a background in nursing and specialization in mental health care, Schumacher has spent most of her career…
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-WY) today introduced a budget resolution for the remainder of fiscal year 2017 that would begin the process to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Dec. 23 issued preliminary guidance clarifying the 21st Century Cures Act provisions that impact off-campus provider-based hospital outpatient departments that had concrete plans for construction when the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 was…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Survey & Certification Group recently rescinded a policy disallowing hospital security units, which provide private beds for justice-involved individuals such as inmates and those in the custody of law enforcement or the state…
The Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation last week issued a joint report on Russian malicious cyber activity in the government and private sectors, which includes recommendations to help organizations recognize and respond to certain technical indicators of…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released worksheets to help eligible hospitals and professionals in Modified Stage 2 of the Medicare Electronic Health Records Incentive Program log their meaningful use measures for calendar year 2016.
The Food and Drug Administration recently alerted physicians to some false positive results for a test used to detect Zika virus antibodies in patients with a history of clinical signs and symptoms or residence in or travel to a region with active Zika transmission. The agency does not yet…
The Food and Drug Administration last week issued final guidance on the postmarket management of medical device cybersecurity. The guidance follows earlier final guidance on medical device premarket cybersecurity.
Nearly 17 million people enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program between Oct. 1, 2013 and Oct. 31, 2016, increasing total enrollment in the programs by 30% since the start of the first open enrollment period for the Health Insurance Marketplace, according to a report …
The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to increase payment for services furnished in "non-grandfathered" off-campus provider-based outpatient departments. The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, as amended by the 21st Century Cures Act, requires that, with the exception of…