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Nov 4, 2015
Click here to view a video message from AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and AHA Chair-elect Designate Gene Woods, president and chief operating officer of Christus Health, on the #123forEquity Pledge to Act Campaign to eliminate health care disparities.
Nov 4, 2015
The AHA expressed disappointment over the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) decision to reduce hospital outpatient payment rates by 0.4% next year in its final rule for the outpatient prospective payment and ambulatory surgical center payment systems (PPS). However, in the final…
Nov 3, 2015
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today held a hearing on several Medicare and Medicaid bills. In a letter to the subcommittee, AHA expressed strong support for H.R.
Nov 3, 2015
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has recalculated results for the calendar year 2013 Medicare spending per beneficiary measure after identifying an issue with data used in the calculation. Hospitals can review and correct their revised hospital-specific reports through Nov. 30, but…
Nov 3, 2015
The Department of Health and Human Services today announced a Nov. 20 stakeholders meeting on pharmaceutical innovation, access and affordability.
Nov 3, 2015
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday approved Montana’s plan to expand Medicaid coverage in January to adults aged 19 to 64 with incomes below 138% of the federal poverty level. Under the five-year demonstration, authorized by the legislature in April, some…
Nov 3, 2015
A new monograph from the AHA’s Center for Healthcare Governance reviews the role of health system boards in recruiting and retaining physicians, evaluating physician compensation and performance, and planning for the retirement, transition and succession of clinical leadership.
Nov 3, 2015
The Coalition to Protect America’s Health Care has again installed digital and large-scale print ads at Reagan National Airport aimed at members of Congress and staff who travel frequently through the airport located just outside of Washington, D.C. The ads remind Congress to protect the…
Nov 3, 2015
The president Nov. 2 signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Act, P.L. 114-74, passed by Congress last week to raise the nation’s debt limit and set spending targets for the federal budget for the next two fiscal years. Site-neutral payments for new provider-based hospital outpatient departments are…
Nov 2, 2015
The AHA today voiced support for an Internal Revenue Service supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking, which clarifies that applicable large employers must provide substantial coverage for inpatient hospitalization and physician services to meet the minimum value standard for health benefits…