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AHA Statement on Inpatient Value-Based Purchasing Provisions in Final Outpatient Prospective Payment Rule.
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HHS final standards for data collection on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language and disability status, as required by Section 4302 of the Affordable Care Act.
AHA's Statement on President Obama's Executive Order on Drug Shortages.
BRIEF FOR THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ET AL. AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF FEDERAL PETITIONERS
The AHA, AAMC, CHA, FAH, NACH and NAPH favor enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). And it is why this Court should promptly grant the Governments petition for certiorari and hold that the ACA is a constitutional exercise of Congresss Commerce Clause power.
The current understanding of what drives readmission focuses on the quality of the inpatient discharge process and on patients' health status. Health care administrators have relied on this narrow framework to conclude that the best approach to reduce readmission rates is to improve the…
Steve Riney, Chief Information Officer at Methodist Medical Center of Illinois in Peoria, talks to H&HN Senior Editor Suzanna Hoppszallern about how his system's ACO partnership with Caterpillar aims to improve health outcomes for thousands of the manufacturer's employees while…
The Coalition to Protect America's Health Care today launched a national advertising campaign to urge Congress not to cut Medicare funding for hospital care.
John Combes, M.D., president of the Center for Healthcare Governance, talks to H&HN Senior Online Editor Haydn Bush about the 'On the CUSP: Stop BSI' program to eliminate central line-associated bloodstream infections in all U.S. hospitals by addressing cultural and technical issues and keeping…
Today's rules represent the direction in which the hospital field is moving toward better coordinated patient care across care settings. We commend CMS for listening to the concerns of America's hospitals.