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The Department of Health and Human Services lacks authority to pay health insurance issuers before the Treasury when allocating payments in the transitional reinsurance program, according to an opinion issued yesterday by the Government Accountability Office.
Hospitals that serve predominantly low-income, medically-underserved individuals may submit an application to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services through Oct. 15 to add their facility to the Essential Community Provider list for the 2018 Health Insurance Marketplaces.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today awarded $347 million in contracts to 16 organizations, including the AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust, to continue efforts to reduce hospital-acquired conditions and readmissions in the Medicare program. The Hospital…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday announced it will again allow eligible hospitals to settle inpatient status claims under appeal, adding that details will be released soon.
President Obama today signed legislation funding federal programs through Dec. 9 and providing $1.1 billion in emergency funding for the Department of Health and Human Services and other agencies to combat Zika. The measure passed the House and Senate yesterday. The compromise package to…
Sens. Pat Roberts (R-KS), John Barrasso (R-WY), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) and Al Franken (D-MN) last night introduced the Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act (R-HoPE), AHA-supported legislation that would extend critical rural provisions that have expired or are set to expire and implement new…
The AHA today expressed support for the Closing Loopholes for Orphan Drugs Act (H.R. 6174), bipartisan legislation that would limit the “orphan drug” exclusion for 340B Drug Pricing Program rural and cancer hospitals.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued a final rule representing the first comprehensive rewrite of Medicare and Medicaid quality and safety requirements for long-term care facilities since 1991.
An estimated 91% of hospital workers report receiving a flu vaccine for the 2015-16 flu season, compared with 80% of ambulatory care workers and 69% of long-term care workers, according to a survey released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Coverage for health care…
The American Organization of Nurse Executives today announced its 2017 president-elect: Bob Dent, senior vice president, chief operating officer and chief nursing officer for Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, TX. As president-elect, Dent will serve as AONE president in 2018. He currently serves…