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The Government Accountability Office Friday issued a report summarizing actions by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
The Food and Drug Administration Friday issued
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday published a final list of Essential Community Providers for plan year 2016, available on the CMS
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday issued a rule finalizing cer
The AHA seeks hospital and health system trustees to serve on its Committee on Governance, Regional Policy Boards, and other governing councils and committees beginning in 2016.
The AHA today urged the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response to distribute the recent Ebola emergency funding as Congress i
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has asked the Measure Applications Partnership to conduct an accelerated review of an ad hoc
AHA today encouraged the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to refine its draft strategic plan for health information technology to clarify and prioritize federal
Medicare will cover annual lung-cancer screening with Low Dose Computed Tomography for Medicare beneficiaries who meet certain criteria, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Employment at the nation's hospitals increased by 0.2% in January to a seasonally adjusted 4,824,000 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
A Tennessee legislative committee yesterday rejected an alternative to Medicaid expansion proposed by Gov. Bill Haslam.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers have recently introduced a spate of AHA-backed legislation that supports small and rural prospective payment system (PPS) hospitals and critical access hospitals (CA
AHA-supported legislation introduced late yesterday in the House and Senate would permanently extend add-on payments for ambulance services in rural areas, which are set to expire March 31.
A group of organizations, including The US Oncology Network owned by McKesson, is urging Congress to enact site-neutral payment policies for services performed in hospital outpatient departments.
AHA today recommended specific changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program to encourage accountable care organizations to invest in the infrastructure necessary to successfully take on risk.
A recent cyber attack against health insurer Anthem’s information technology system serves as a potent reminder to hospitals and other health care organizations of the importance of ongoing i
Nearly 7.5 million consumers selected or were re-enrolled in a health plan through HealthCare.gov between Nov. 15 and Jan.
Legislation to revamp Medicare’s telehealth legislation should address several statutory restrictions that stand in the way of modernizing coverage and payment for telehealth services, the AHA last
President Obama’s call for deep funding cuts to hospital care “are bad medicine for our nation’s seniors and other vulnerable patients,” AHA President and CEO Rich Umbdensto