House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) today introduced legislation t
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African-American children were more than twice as likely as white children to be readmitted to an urban children’s hospital for asthma between August 2010 and October 2011, with socioeconomic and o
People who exercise more may be less likely to get 13 types of cancers, according to a study publis
Fewer than 1% of rural Medicare beneficiaries received a telemedicine visit in 2013, according to a study&nb
Hospital and health system leaders are invited to apply through June 1 for the AHA’s Health Care System Transformation Fellowship.
President Obama did not have the authority to pay cost-sharing reductions to low-income enrollees in health insurance plans purchased on an exchange, a federal district court judge
The House of Representatives last night approved seven AHA-supported bills as part of its legisl
The AHA supports the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ efforts to explore the feasibility of global budget payment programs in geographically defined communities, the association
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has temporarily paused two-midnight patient status reviews to improve standardization across the program, the agency last week
In an open letter on the opioid epidemic published yesterday in the Huffingt
The focus of this year’s National Nurses Week, which concludes today, is “Culture of Safety: It Starts With You.” In an AHASTAT
The AHA May 11 submitted to the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee several overarching recommendations for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternative Payment Models (APM)
The AHA today submitted to the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee several overarching recommendations for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System and Alternative Payment Models that the Cent
As legislation to address the opioid crisis moved to the floor, AHA and others yesterday urged House leaders to align privacy laws governing substance use disorder patient records with Health Insur
The Coalition to Protect a Democratic Workplace, whose members include the AHA, yesterday voiced support for a joint resolution (H.J. Res.
The proposed merger between health insurers Aetna and Humana would give the combined company 25% of Medicare Advantage enrollment nationwide, assuming no divestitures were required, according to a
The Class of 2018 profiles the women and men who joined the AHA board this year.