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The Department of Health and Human Services will award $20 million to help eligible clinicians in small practices transition to the Quality Payment Program, especially those in rural, medically underserved and health professional shortage areas.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a July 6 call on its final rule revising the Medicare payment system for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests. CMS experts will provide a high-level overview of the final policies, released Friday. To register for the call, at 2:30 p.m…
July 1 is the deadline for employers and labor consultants to comply with the Department of Labor’s new “persuader” reporting rule. The final rule significantly expands the circumstances obligating employers and labor consultants to report activities specifically undertaken…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced plans to step up enrollment outreach to young adults for the 2017 Health Insurance Marketplaces, including working with partners to promote enrollment tools and information. As part of the initiative, AHA plans to develop a…
Cleveland Clinic will receive the AHA Equity of Care Award July 18 at the Health Forum/AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego. The award recognizes hospitals for their efforts to reduce health care disparities and advance diversity within the organization’s leadership, board and workforce. The…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today proposed changes to the Payment Error Rate Measurement and Medicaid Eligibility Quality Control programs to reflect how states adjudicate eligibility for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program under the Affordable Care Act. The…
The transitional reinsurance program coinsurance rate will be an estimated 55.1% for the 2015 benefit year, but could be raised if reinsurance contributions exceed requests for payments, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Friday. This rate is higher than the 50%…
The AHA today took aim at coding guidelines for the inpatient rehabilitation facility’s “60% Rule” presumptive compliance test and quality reporting provisions in comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed IRF prospective payment system rule for…
Commenting on the fiscal year 2017 proposed rule for the skilled nursing facility prospective payment system, the AHA today encouraged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to fully consider refinements recommended by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission as it works to develop a new…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week issued an interim plan for responding to locally acquired cases of Zika virus infection in the continental U.S. and Hawaii. As of June 15, only travel-associated cases have been reported in the continental U.S., including three…