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A federal appeals court today reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the AHA and several hospitals, which sought to compel the Department of Health and Human Services to meet its congressionally mandated deadlines for reviewing Medicare claims denials.
President Obama today as part of his fiscal year 2017 budget request to Congress proposed nearly $420 billion in reductions to Medicare payments to providers. The proposed cuts are over 10 years. The budget request seeks an additional $27.6 billion over 10 years for Medicaid and the Children…
President Obama today announced a federal plan to enhance cybersecurity, which includes a new Commerce Department commission that will recommend by December how to strengthen cybersecurity in the public and private sectors.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today voted 22-0 to approve the Improving Health Information Technology Act (S. 2511), bipartisan legislation aimed at making electronic health records more interoperable.
An estimated 28.8 million U.S. residents lacked health insurance when surveyed during the first nine months of 2015, 7.2 million fewer than in 2014, according to preliminary estimates released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The proportion of residents who were…
The AHA Friday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to protect patients’ access to care when it implements Sec. 603 of the 2015 Bipartisan Budget Act.
The AHA Friday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to protect patients’ access to care when it implements Sec. 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. “The AHA is deeply disappointed that this law will result in substantial reductions to payments for services…
The AHA today told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee that it strongly supports creating an efficient and effective infrastructure for health information exchange that facilitates the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered care across health care settings.
The administration will ask Congress for more than $1.8 billion in emergency funding to prepare for and respond to Zika virus here and abroad, the White House announced today. The total includes $1.48 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services, $335 million for the U.S. Agency for…
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Friday proposed changes to the confidentiality rule for substance use disorder records to facilitate health information exchange while protecting patient privacy. The last substantive update to the rule was in 1987.