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Nine national hospital organizations, including the AHA, today again expressed support for bipartisan legislation to permanently replace the Medicare physician sustainable growth rate formula.
“While the evidence is in some respects limited, there is little doubt that information blocking is occurring and that it is interfering with the exchange of electronic health information,&rd
The nation has made clear progress in improving the health care delivery system to achieve the three aims of better care, smarter spending and healthier people, according to the 2014 National Healt
Secretary of State John Kerry today signed a memorandum of understanding with the African Union Commission to create an African CDC, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Senior health care leaders can apply through June 1 to participate in the next AHA Health Care Transformation Fellowship, a nine-month program designed to give participants knowledge, tools and con
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a proposed rule that w
The AHA and four other national organizations representing members of the psychiatric-provider community this week urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services not to include in the Inpat
States last September reported enrolling more than 4.6 million newly eligible adults in Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act’s new adult eligibility group, according to
Hospital prices in February were just 0.4% higher than in February 2014, according to the latest
Uninsured rates for adults in the nation’s four largest states were higher last year in the states that had not expanded Medicaid eligibility to low-income adults under the Affordable Care Ac
The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center yesterday discharged in good condition the American health car
Physicians and teaching hospitals may review and dispute 2014 payments reported to the Open Payments program for a 45-day period that began April 6, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Senior health care leaders may apply through June 1 to participate in the next AHA Health Care Transformation Fellowship, a nine-month program designed to give participants knowledge, tools and con
The AHA encourages all hospitals to submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey by April 17.
National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Richard Griffin Jr.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute this week anno
Cancer mortality rates tend to be lower and improve more in countries that spend more on cancer care, according to a
The American health care worker being treated for Ebola virus disease at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD, has improved from fair to good condition, NIH
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today alerted U.S.