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Connecticut hospitals invested $1.5 billion in community benefit initiatives in 2014, according to a new report from the Connecticut Hospital Association. These include programs targeted to meet specific community needs, such as support services for patients with chronic conditions and young…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will add about 1,900 diagnosis codes and 3,651 hospital inpatient procedure codes to the ICD-10 coding system for health care claims in fiscal year 2017, the agencies announced this week. The large…
The Health Resources and Services Administration today awarded $94 million in grants to 271 health centers to screen and treat an estimated 124,000 new patients for substance abuse, with a focus on opioid use disorders in underserved populations.
About 39% of the 12.7 million Americans who signed up or were automatically enrolled in a 2016 health plan during open enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplaces were new consumers, according to a final report released today by the Department of Health and Human Services. More than 9.6…
The New Hampshire House of Representatives this week voted to reauthorize the state’s Medicaid expansion alternative, which provides private health coverage to more than 48,000 low-income uninsured residents.
The National Patient Safety Foundation will host a Patient Safety Awareness Week Twitter chat Tuesday at 2 p.m. ET on promoting patient safety across the care continuum. Participants are encouraged to share patient safety tips, resources and strategies using the hashtag #PSAW16chat. AHA will…
The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is offering a limited number of seats in its 2016 examiner preparation course. Participants in the interactive course learn the same methods and techniques used by Baldrige examiners and network directly with the examiners and Baldrige staff throughout…
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new Vital Signs report focused on the important role of antibiotic stewardship in the effort to reduce health care-associated infections. The work being done to reduce HAIs is important
Testifying yesterday at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on antitrust enforcement oversight, the assistant attorney general for antitrust at the Department of Justice suggested that the proposed mergers of Aetna and Humana and Anthem and Cigna demand careful scrutiny to protect…
The Senate today voted 94-1 to approve the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (S. 524), bipartisan legislation to address the nation’s opioid epidemic. The bill would establish an interagency task force to develop best practices for pain management and medication prescribing, and…