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A House Appropriations subcommittee today approved by voice vote legislation that would provide $161.6 billion in discretionary funding for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and related agencies in fiscal year 2017.
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today held a hearing on draft legislation that would create a new state option in Medicaid to provide a health home for medically complex children.
The AHA July 7 and three other national hospital groups called on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to examine the “serious flaws” in the agency’s hospital quality “star ratings” methodology.
“Our continued review of the limited information available to us has raised serious…
Hospitals with different issues and concerns find something they like in the House-passed Helping Hospitals to Improve Patient Care Act, H.R. 5273 – and hope the Senate will make consideration of the bill a priority. But an abbreviated election-year legislative calendar could possibly push…
The AHA Wednesday expressed “extreme dismay” with the provisions for new off-campus hospital outpatient departments contained in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) outpatient prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule for 2017.
Brainy Camps is a funny name. But this summer camp is serious about teaching kids with special needs to live wisely.Brainy Camps does more than allow children to experience bunk beds and rope courses every summer. It has helped children with chronic illness learn how to control their disease by…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today proposed to update hospital outpatient prospective payment system rates by 1.55% in calendar year 2017 compared to CY 2016.
Sens. John Thune (R-SD) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) today introduced AHA-supported legislation (S. 3129) to extend through calendar year 2016 the enforcement moratorium on direct supervision requirements for outpatient therapeutic services provided in critical access hospitals and rural prospective…
Starting in fiscal year 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposes to no longer use the results from three pain management questions in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey in determining hospitals’ value-based purchasing program scores,…
The Commission on Care today submitted to the president its recommendations for transforming veteran’s health care. The Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 established the commission to examine veterans’ access to Department of Veterans Affairs health care and…