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Global supplies of an isotope used in medical diagnostic imaging will fall substantially when a Canadian reactor stops producing it at the end of October, according to a report released today by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Nearly all of the world’s…
Based on national surveys, most enrollees who obtained coverage through the health insurance exchanges were satisfied overall with their qualified health plans in 2014 through 2016, according to a report released today by the Government Accountability Office. To varying degrees, QHP enrollees…
The AHA seeks nominations through Sept. 23 for its 2017 Hospital Awards for Volunteer Excellence. Hospital CEOs and directors of volunteer services are encouraged to nominate outstanding volunteer programs in the areas of community service, fundraising, in-service needs or challenges, and community…
When Bon Secours Hampton Roads (Va.) Health System’s healthy community initiative began in Norfolk’s East Ocean View neighborhood seven years ago, the prospects for reviving this coastal southeastern Virginia community of 4,500 residents seemed bleak.
The Congressional Budget Office yesterday released a report examining hospital finances over the next decade under several scenarios that incorporate key provisions of the Affordable Care Act and other factors. The analysis focuses on about 3,000 hospitals that provide acute care to the…
The Government Accountability Office today released a report examining key policy and data considerations should policymakers elect to pursue a per capita cap on average federal Medicaid spending per enrollee.
The Joint Commission will require acute-care hospitals to report on five chart-abstracted measures and six electronic clinical quality measures for ORYX performance measure reporting in 2017. They may choose the six eCQMs measures from 13 of the 15 eCQMs in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is conducting through Sept. 30 a second review and corrections period for the fiscal year 2017 Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program due to an error in calculating Clostridium difficile infection performance during the first two quarters of…
The Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement bundled payment program may unintentionally penalize hospitals because it lacks a mechanism, such as risk adjustment, to sufficiently account for patients’ medical complexity, according to a study reported this week in Health Affairs.
While hospitals in the Medicare Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program receive patient experience points based on achievement, improvement and consistency, additional emphasis on improvement points could benefit hospitals serving minority patients, according to a study reported this week in…