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The AHA’s American Society for Healthcare Engineering encourages health care facility and energy managers to complete its energy and water survey by Nov. 18. The Environmental Protection Agency will use anonymous data from the survey to update its ENERGY STAR scoring models for hospitals and…
The House of Representatives today approved AHA-supported legislation (H.R. 4365) clarifying that emergency medical services practitioners may administer controlled substances in accordance with a standing order issued by a physician medical director of an EMS agency.
As Congress considers year-end legislation, the AHA today reiterated its support for the Electronic Health Record Regulatory Relief Act (S. 3173) in a letter to leaders of the Senate Finance, House Ways and Means, and House Energy and Commerce Committees. Introduced in July by Sens.
Forty drugs accounted for 69% of Medicare spending for drugs administered in physician and hospital outpatient settings last year, according to an updated dashboard released today by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The Department of Health and Human Services today released a notice with the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program federal medical assistance percentages for fiscal year FY 2018. The notice provides state and territorial FMAP percentages for Medicaid, CHIP and disaster-…
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force yesterday recommended that clinicians offer low- or moderate-dose statins to adults aged 40 to 75 without a history of cardiovascular disease who have at least one risk factor and a 10% or higher risk of having a heart attack or stroke within 10 years.…
The Medicare Part A deductible for inpatient hospital services will increase by $28 in calendar year 2017, to $1,316, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced yesterday. The Part A daily coinsurance amounts will be $329 for days 61-90 of hospitalization in a benefit period; $…
The Health Resources and Services Administration plans to award about $17 million in Zika Response and Preparedness Act funds to health departments in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa. The funding will support activities to screen, identify, assess and follow up with infants…
About 15% of adults smoked cigarettes in 2015, down from about 17% in 2014 and 21% in 2005, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cigarette smoking rates were higher among men than women, Native Americans than other racial and ethnic groups, and those…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued its draft 2018 Letter to Issuers, which provides operational and technical guidance to insurers intending to sell qualified health plans through the federally-facilitated Health Insurance Marketplaces in 2018.