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Southcentral FoundationAnchorage, AK150 beds A nonprofit health care organization owned by the Alaska Native people. SCF and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium jointly own the Alaska Native Medical Center.
While fixing the physician payment formula is essential, it should not be done by jeopardizing hospitals’ ability to care for seniors and their communities. That’s why we are very disappointed at the approach taken in this measure.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) presented Captain Pachuta and Lieutenant Colonel Kosmatka with awards recognizing their outstanding service to the health care field.
The impending budget crisis is real, and we need to work together to provide financial certainty to our economy. But today's proposal by the House would negatively impact all patients, especially the nation's most vulnerable - children, the poor, elderly and the disabled.
This second report in this series expands and explains all three strategies and focuses on patient and community awareness and engagement and a ready, willing and able workforce.
Awareness: Communitywide strategies can significantly raise patient and family awareness in advanced illness planning…
During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United States delivered safe, effective, equitable and high-quality care and put patients first. For example, Billings Clinic in Billings, MT, partnered with another local hospital and the public health…
As a member of the NQF and on behalf of the hospital field that is implementing a wide variety of NQF endorsed measures, the AHA is delighted that such a stellar leader has been named to lead the NQF.
Protect Coordinated Care Hospital are facing a proposed policy that would cap "total" payment for non-emergency department evaluation and management (E/M) services in hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) at the rate paid to physicians for providing the same services in their o
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-->Testimony of the American Hospital Association before the Standards Subcommittee of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: “Industry implementation of updated and new HIPAA Standards and Code Sets X12 Version 5010, NCPDP Version D.0, NCPDP Version 3…