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AHA comment letter to Commissioners Nickel and Wade raising concerns about whether provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that set minimum medical loss ratios (MLRs) and provide rate review standards might temper the anticompetitive effects that will follow in the wake of the pending mergers…
This joint webinar between HPOE and the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital discusses strategies and approaches implemented by hospitals and health care systems to collect the social determinants of health, with the understanding that this information will be critical for…
AHA to Sen. Sherrod Brown Re: Support for the Healthy Maternity and Obstetric Medicine Act (S. 2220)
AHA letter to Senator Sherrod Brown expressing support for S. 2220, the Healthy Maternity and Obstetric Medicine Act or Healthy MOM Act.
At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations across the country, executives, clinicians and staff are leading initiatives to achieve the Triple Aim: improving the patient experience of care (including quality and satisfaction), improving the health of…
The Issue: The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) makes sweeping changes to how Medicare pays for physician services. The legislation repeals the Medicare physician sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula and instead provides predictable payment increases.
Press ReleaseLynn Smith to Chair AHA's Committee on VolunteersWASHINGTON (February 11, 2016) – The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that Lynn Smith, auxilian at CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs in Hot Springs, Ark. will chair the AHA's 2016 Committee on Volunteers.
The D.C. Circuits opinion in ALJ delay case. In the 19-page opinion, the court notes that [t]aking the [TRAC] factors into account, the district courtmore than a year after its first denial and with the problem only worseningmight find it appropriate to issue a writ of mandamus ordering the…