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The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology yesterday announced $1.5 million in funding to test selected clinical interoperability standards for health IT in priority areas, such as medication management, laboratory data exchange…
Louisiana hospitals generate more than $31.6 billion annually in state business activity and directly employ more than 103,000 people, according to a report released this week by the Louisiana Hospital Association. These expenditures in turn create and support another 311,120 jobs, the report…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed payment model for Medicare Part B drugs should not include hospitals, which “have little control over which drugs physicians prescribe in hospital-based settings,” AHA said in comments submitted today.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday released an interim final rule implementing changes to the special enrollment periods for public Health Insurance Marketplaces and rules for Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a May 12 webinar on its overall hospital quality “star ratings” methodology. During the 90-minute webinar, which begins at 1 p.m. ET, presenters will explain the methodology used to generate the summary rating for individual hospitals…
A panel of health care pharmaceutical experts May 3 offered a range of approaches to help rein in what all agreed is an unsustainable increase in prescription drug prices during an executive briefing at the AHA’s annual meeting. They noted that the growth in the price of prescription…
The two major proposed mergers in the health insurance sector – Aetna-Humana and Anthem-Cigna – should trouble providers and consumers, because evidence suggests health plan consolidation is bad for patients, said panelists during a May 2 executive briefing at the AHA annual meeting.…
About 17% of working-age adults lacked a usual place for medical care when surveyed in 2014, ranging from 3% in Vermont to 27% in Nevada, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Adults in states that have expanded Medicaid eligibility were more likely to…
Almost half of seniors with severely impaired vision reported falling in 2014, compared with one in three seniors overall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. Based on the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, the fall rate for those with severe visual impairment ranged…
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.45% in April to a seasonally adjusted 5,065,400 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. That's 22,900 more people than in March and 194,400 more than a year ago. Without the seasonal adjustment, which removes the effect of…