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The AHA will present its 2016 Rural Hospital Leadership Award to Rodney Nelson, president and CEO of Mackinac Straits Health System in St. Ignace, MI, at its Rural Health Care Leadership Conference in February. AHA also will honor award finalists Warren West, CEO of Littleton (NH) Regional…
Mackinac Straits Health System President and CEO Rodney Nelson is all about finding creative solutions to the challenges facing his organization.It’s how he transformed a once-struggling critical access hospital and nursing home into a comprehensive rural health system for the people and…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will not apply 2017 or 2018 payment adjustments to any eligible professional or group practice that fails to satisfactorily report certain quality data to the Physician Quality Reporting System for fourth-quarter calendar year 2016 solely due to…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted the statements of work for its new Medicare Recovery Audit Contractors, a map depicting the new RAC regions and contact information for each RAC. CMS in October awarded five new Medicare RAC contracts.
More than 4 million people selected a health plan through HealthCare.gov Nov. 1 through Dec. 10, about 250,000 more than during the same period last year.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today unveiled two consumer-facing websites that provide quality data on long-term care hospitals and inpatient rehabilitation facilities.
About 6% of U.S. completed pregnancies with laboratory evidence of possible recent Zika infection had a fetus or infant with evidence of a Zika-related birth defect, according to a study published online yesterday by the Journal of the American Medical Association. Of 442 completed pregnancies…
President Obama on Dec. 13 signed into law the AHA-supported 21st Century Cures Act, which includes a number of provisions important to hospitals and health systems. Both the House and Senate overwhelmingly passed the measure.
The AHA invites applications through Jan. 27 for the 2017 Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership. Named after AHA President Emeritus Dick Davidson, the annual award honors a state, regional or metropolitan hospital association that demonstrates exceptional…
As an emergency department (ED) physician at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, Steven Leffler, M.D., saw firsthand how chronically homeless patients returned again and again to his crowded ED for care.“We had a hard time discharging people because they didn’t have…