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The Organ Donation and Transplantation Alliance has launched a new informational series focused on organ, eye and tissue donation topics relevant to senior health care leaders. To view the first resource in the Hospital C-Suite Snapshot Series, visit https://organdonationalliance.org/csuite. The…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a final rule addressing how third-party payments are treated when calculating the hospital-specific limitation on Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payments.
The AHA today urged further study before the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission votes on a recommendation that Congress implement a unified post-acute care (PAC) prospective payment system (PPS) by 2021.
The AHA today urged further study before the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission votes on a recommendation that Congress implement a unified post-acute care prospective payment system by 2021. “We appreciate the thoughtful work MedPAC has completed thus far on PAC PPS issues,” wrote…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will exercise enforcement discretion until May 30 with respect to new data reporting requirements for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests paid under the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule.
President Trump yesterday issued an executive order establishing a commission to study the scope and effectiveness of the federal response to drug addiction and the opioid crisis, and make recommendations to him for improving the response. The executive order calls for the commission to submit…
A coalition of more than 100 organizations, including the AHA and its American Organization of Nurse Executives subsidiary, today recommended House and Senate appropriators provide $7.48 billion in discretionary funding for Health Resources and Services Administration programs in fiscal year 2018.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback today vetoed legislation that would have expanded Medicaid eligibility to uninsured adults under age 65 who earn up to 133% of the federal poverty level.
The AHA’s Association for Community Health Improvement has updated its Community Health Assessment Toolkit to offer a nine-step pathway to a robust and community-engaged health assessment process. All nonprofit hospitals complete community health needs assessments every three years, a…
The AHA’s American Society for Healthcare Engineering is accepting applications through April 1 for its 2017 Energy to Care awards, which recognize health care leaders for improvements in energy efficiency. More than 2,000 health care facilities participate in the Energy to Care benchmarking…