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Rachelle Schultz, president and CEO of Winona Health in Winona, MN, will lead the AHA's Constituency Section for Small or Rural Hospitals in 2017.
The House of Representatives last night voted 404-0 to approve the Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medicines Act (H.R. 304).
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday released a final rule imp
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released additional details on the Medicare Accountable Care Organization Track 1+ model, which will begin in 2018.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today released the fifth and final
More than 11.5 million people selected a 2017 health plan through the Health Insurance Marketplaces as of Dec.
The drive to build a continuum of care that rewards value over volume is unlikely to abate because it’s what consumers demand, AHA General Counsel Melinda Reid Hatton writes in an AHA Stat
Joe McDonald, president and CEO of Catholic Health System in Buffalo, NY, will serve as 2017 council chairman of the AHA's Constituency Section for Health Care Systems.
The AHA agrees with the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission that positive payment updates for the hospital inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems are necessary in fiscal year 2018, t
Hospitals participating in the inpatient and outpatient quality reporting programs can preview their quality data through Feb.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and National Library of Medicine Friday published an
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.21% in December to a seasonally adjusted 5,138,000 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
The January issue of the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, published by The College of American Pathologists, focuses on pathology and laboratory medicine aspects of the Zika virus glo
Margie Beadles, volunteer/auxilian at CoxHealth in Springfield, MO, is 2017 chair of the AHA’s Committee on Volunteers.
The Food and Drug Administration recently warned health care facilities of potential safety risks associated with battery-powered mobile medical carts, including reports of explosion, fires, smokin
The Food and Drug Administration should see how much it can leverage existing safety efforts to gather evidence and information about medical device safety, rather than relying on a separate and po
Federal payments for Part D catastrophic coverage exceeded $33 billion in 2015, more than triple the amount paid in 2010, according to a new
A partial repeal of the Affordable Care Act could increase the number of uninsured Americans by 29.8 million over 10 years, according to a new
Repealing the Affordable Care Act’s federal premium tax credits and Medicaid expansion to low-income adults in 2019 would result in a $140 billion cut in federal funding for health care and 2.9 mil