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The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) will host its third National Summit on Advanced Illness Care Sept. 20-21 in Washington, D.C. AHA is a co-sponsor of the event, which brings together national leaders in advanced illness care. For more information or to register, visit www.ctacsummit.…
You find a mix of current and former patients in the art studio at the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific in Honolulu – a program that for more than two decades has eased patients’ pain through art.“A lot of them have never painted before,” says Reuben Young, the…
The House last night approved by voice vote the Helping Hospitals Improve Patient Care Act, H.R. 5273. The AHA-backed legislation would revise Section 603 of the 2015 Bipartisan Budget Act to move the grandfather date for off-campus hospital outpatient departments (HOPD) under development from Nov…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today delayed to Jan. 1 a new policy requiring health care providers to document in the patient’s record and on Medicare claims, through the use of the ”JW modifier,” the amount discarded when Part B drugs or biological…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response has issued resources to help health care providers and coalitions plan for a real or potential Zika virus outbreak.
A Senate appropriations subcommittee today approved legislation that would provide $161.9 billion in base discretionary funding for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and related agencies in fiscal year 2017, $270 million less than this year. HHS programs would receive $…
The AHA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released a one-page resource to help hospital patients who may be prescribed opioids before discharge discuss the risks and benefits of these medications with their health care provider.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released a final rule that makes technical changes to the way financial targets are calculated for accountable care organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. CMS will account for differences in regional health care spending…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has provided additional information on its temporary pause of Quality Improvement Organization claim audits under the two-midnight inpatient admissions policy. During the pause, which began May 4, CMS will improve standardization around the QIO…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services invites hospitals to submit innovative quality improvement practices to its Strategic Innovation Engine, which will evaluate them for possible dissemination across the nation. Targeted improvements include managing patients with multiple chronic…