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Physician practices each week spend more than 15 hours per physician to track and report quality measures for Medicare, Medicaid and private health insurers at an estimated cost of at least $15.4 b

Hospitals eligible for incentive payments for meaningful use of electronic health records are more likely than ineligible hospitals to have at least a basic EHR system, meet Stage 1 criteria for me

A National Academy of Medicine committee today proposed a

The AHA seeks clinicians to serve on its Committee on Clinical Leadership beginning in 2017.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service’s proposed update for Medicare Advantage and Part D prescription drug programs in calendar year 2017 includes, on balance, “fair and sust

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Innovation Center is accepting the second and final round of applications for its

An estimated 30% of Medicare fee-for-service payments were tied to quality or value through alternative payment models as of January, up from 20% in 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Se

About 20 million adults have gained health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new

Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.21% in January to a seasonally adjusted 5,028,000 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a toolkit to h

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has approved a Michigan demonstration to expand Medicaid coverage and services to children and pregnant women affected by the water crisis in Flint,

March 11 is the deadline for hospitals and eligible professionals to

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission today discussed its pending report to Congress on a prototype payment system that, if ultimately approved by Congress, could replace the current payment sys

Acute-care hospitals reduced central-line associated bloodstream infections by 50% and surgical site infections by 17% between 2008 and 2014, according to a Vital Signs

State expenditures to help providers in Medicaid Electronic Health Records Programs exchange health information with other Medicaid providers may be eligible for federal matching funds under the HI

The Internal Revenue Service yesterday alerted payroll and human resources professionals to beware of an emerging phishing email scheme that purports to be from company executives and requests pers

The Campaign for Sustainable Rx Pricing today announced that AARP has joined its effort to find market-based solutions to the problems cause

Charlestown – a 1-square mile neighborhood in Boston – seemed mired in an opioid crisis in 2003.

Nearly every day health care practitioners from Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus, Ohio, practice an outreach effort known as street medicine – or “street med” for short.

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today held a