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The statistics are staggering: The number of Americans diagnosed with diabetes has risen from 1.5 million in 1958 to 18.8 million in 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is estimated that more than 25 million Americans have diabetes, and about 79 million adults have…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ambiguous policy regarding observation stays leaves hospitals in an untenable position, the AHA said in a friend-of-the-court brief filed yesterday in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Each year, the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement takes an in-depth look at a single topic to improve health care quality and support performance improvement. The 2013 CPI focused on issues related to generational differences in the health care field, to address the projected shift in patient…