Quality & Patient Safety

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As part of the Administration's efforts to make hospital pricing more transparent, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) today released information on Medicare payments for 30 common procedures aggregated by county. This advisory was prepared to alert you to the CMS release.
Bob Hyzy, M.D., a board certified pulmonologist at the University ofMichigan Hospitals and Health System in Ann Arbor testifies on behalf of the AHA before the Subcommittee on Labor, HHS and Education of the House Committee on Appropriations regarding Healthcare-associated infections.