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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today opened registration for 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…
Rhode Island hospitals contributed more than $6.5 billion to the state's economy in 2014, according to a new report by the Hospital Association of Rhode Island. The hospitals employ nearly 20,000 full-time health care professionals and spend about $1.4 billion a year on goods and services,…
Friday is the final day for all hospitals to submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey. The free web-based survey helps AHA measure the impact of Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor program on hospitals and advocate for needed changes. For more information on the RACTrac initiative, visit www.…
Hospital and health system leaders from across the country are coming to Washington, D.C., for the AHA Annual Membership Meeting, May 1-4, and to advance hospitals’ advocacy agenda on Capitol Hill.Special sessions and executive briefings at the annual meeting will examine what it means to be…
By Scott J. Knoer and Steve Rough As we shift our focus from volume to value on our quest to improve population health, we must invest in programs that reduce costs while improving outcomes, quality, safety and the patient experience for all patients we serve. When integrated across the…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services late today issued a proposed rule implementing key provisions of the new physician payment system required by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. Section 101 of MACRA repeals the Medicare sustainable growth rate methodology…
The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved five AHA-supported bills as part of its legislative package to address the opioid epidemic. The bills would: establish an interagency task force to review, modify and update best practices for pain management and pain medication…
The Senate Special Committee on Aging today held the third in a series of hearings to investigate sudden and aggressive price spikes in older prescription drugs. Testifying at the hearing, Richard Fogel, M.D., chief clinical officer for Ascension Health’s St.
Racial and ethnic differences in life expectancy, infant mortality, female cigarette smoking, flu vaccinations for seniors, and health insurance coverage narrowed between 1999 and 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest annual report on the nation…
A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts profiles 10 antibiotic stewardship programs in inpatient settings, which provide examples to hospitals seeking to establish or improve their antibiotic stewardship efforts.