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To continue to transform the health care delivery system and improve quality and affordability of care for patients, hospitals need the next administration and Congress to prioritize modernizing outdated and burdensome laws and regulations, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack told attendees at a…
Leonhard Lang has recalled certain lots of an automatic external defibrillator electrode because the user may not be able to connect it to the defibrillator when a shock is needed due to a compatibility issue, the Food and Drug Administration announced Friday. A delay in delivering electrical…
The National Academy for State Health Policy today issued 11 proposals to help states rein in rising prescription drug costs.
A total of 168 organizations, including the AHA, last week urged House and Senate appropriators to maintain at least $334 million in budget authority for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in fiscal year 2017.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host an Oct. 26 webinar and Nov. 15 call on the final rule implementing key provisions of the new physician payment system required by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. The 60-minute webinar, at 2 p.m. ET, will provide an…
The Department of Health and Human Services today awarded $294 million to primary care clinicians and students through the National Health Service Corps and NURSE Corps programs to reduce their educational debt in exchange for service in underserved communities. “The NHSC and NURSE Corps…
The number one childhood disease isn’t leukemia or allergies or even asthma. It’s dental disease, according to the National Children’s Oral Health Foundation.It is preventable, but, of course, only if the child sees a dentist. More kids are in Houston because of a partnership…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) final rule for Medicare’s new physician payment system offers both challenges and opportunities for hospitals and their employed or contracted physicians, the AHA said last week.
The AHA Friday asked a federal judge to require the Department of Health and Human Services to implement three “practicable solutions” to reduce the backlog of Medicare claims appeals at the administrative law judge level: offer reasonable settlements to hospitals and other Medicare…
The AHA strongly supports the innovations in care delivery and financing pioneered by the Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly and generally supports the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ efforts to update the program’s regulatory requirements, AHA said today. The…