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The AHA Friday asked a federal judge to require the Department of Health and Human Services to implement three “practicable solutions” to reduce the backlog of Medicare claims appeals at the administrative law judge level: offer reasonable settlements to hospitals and other Medicare…
The AHA strongly supports the innovations in care delivery and financing pioneered by the Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly and generally supports the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ efforts to update the program’s regulatory requirements, AHA said today. The…
The quality of outpatient care for U.S. adults improved in the areas of recommended medical treatment, counseling and cancer screening between 2002 and 2013, according to a study published online today by JAMA Internal Medicine. The authors used 46 indicators from the Medical Expenditure Panel…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a final rule with comment period implementing key provisions of the new physician payment system required by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today issued a final rule that provides a regulatory framework for the agency to directly review certified health IT products that may present a serious risk to public health or safety, or practical challenges for ONC-…
The Florida Department of Health yesterday announced five cases of local Zika virus transmission in a new area of about one square mile in Miami-Dade County.
The AHA has joined with the American Health Information Management Association Foundation, American Medical Informatics Association, and National Center for Healthcare Leadership to form the Healthcare Workforce Consortium, which will receive $7.1 million from the Department of Labor’s…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday released more details about its outreach strategy for enrollment in the 2017 Health Insurance Marketplaces. Plans include reaching more consumers by mail and email, including the recently uninsured and those who sought coverage in the…
Breast cancer death rates fell an average 1.9% annually for white women and 1.5% annually for black women between 2010 and 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported yesterday. While death rates declined at the same pace for white and black women under age 50, they fell…
As part of International Infection Prevention Week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology will host an Oct. 18 webinar on “Preventing the Next Avoidable Catastrophe in Low and Middle Resource Countries.”…