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Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.12% in February to a seasonally adjusted 5,085,000 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. That's 6,300 more people than in January and 104,000 more than a year ago. Without the seasonal adjustment, which removes the effect of…
“Congress should preserve the 340B Drug Pricing Program and protect patients and communities,” writes AHA Executive Vice President Tom Nickels in an AHA Stat blog post. He notes, “Every day, we see stories about the exorbitant costs of prescription drugs and the serious challenges they pose for…
The House Committee on Ways & Means early this morning reported out its part of the House legislative package to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act, while the House Energy & Commerce Committee this afternoon completed the markup of its piece of the legislation –…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued answers to Frequently Asked Questions for hospitals implementing the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice, including guidance on completing the free-text field that explains why the patient is not an inpatient. Effective March 8,…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Tennessee Department of Health to minimize any human health risk posed by an H7N9 avian flu outbreak in commercial poultry in Lincoln County, TN, the agency said yesterday.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has updated its webpage to help health care providers prepare for the Medicare Beneficiary Identifier, which will replace the Health Insurance Claim Number on transactions such as billing, eligibility status and claim status by April 2019. The…
The AHA today launched a new web resource – trustees.aha.org – as part of the association's ongoing efforts to support trustee education and governance across the hospital and health system field. The resource is designed to support good governance in the changing health care…
The AHA will host a free webinar March 16 on strategies to address rising medication costs. The event will feature a case study by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. For more information and to register, click here.
Hospitals come together to make the "healthy choice the easy choice" in Montana's Yellowstone County
Providers in Billings, Mont., came together more than 20 years ago to collaborate for a healthier community in what the AHA has described as an example of a “second generation” strategy for improving population health.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) March 13 released an estimate of the effects on health coverage of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the legislative package passed last week by the House Ways and Means and Energy & Commerce…