Advisory
AHA Advisories provide urgent information for AHA members and the health care field, and actions they may need to take.
The Hospital Quality Alliance \(HQA\) has adopted, on a preliminary basis, 10 performance measures of hospital outpatient quality.
In the May 11 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) finalized changes to its direct graduate medical education \(DGME\) and indirect medical education \(IME\) payment policies related to the time residents spend in non-hospital settings, such as physician…
The Internal Revenue Service \(IRS\) recently released for public comment a completely redesigned Form 990, which includes a 10-page ")core") form and 15 specific schedules that tax-exempt organizations are required to complete, as applicable. The schedules include a new Schedule H to be completed…
The administrative simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 \(HIPAA\) call for the Secretary of Health and Human Services \(HHS\) to adopt national standard identifiers to be used by health care providers in the HIPAA transaction standards
On April 13, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released its fiscal year \(FY\) 2008 proposed rule for the hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\).
In the February 1 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services\(CMS\) published proposed changes to its direct graduate medical education \(DGME\) and indirect medical education \(IME\) payment policies related to the amount of time residents can spend in non-hospital settings…