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The AHA encourages all hospitals to complete the eighth annual Information Technology Supplement to the AHA Annual Survey. The survey was mailed to hospital CEOs this month for their chief information officer to complete on paper or online by Dec. 28.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today released its final 2016 Interoperability Standards Advisory, intended to provide an updated list of the “best available” standards and implementation specifications to meet…
The U.S. death rate from drug overdoses increased 6.5% in 2014 to a record 47,055, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. That includes an 80% increase in deaths from synthetic opioids such as fentanyl and 26% increase from heroin.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Homeland Security today removed enhanced visa and port-of-entry screening for travelers from Sierra Leone, which the World Health Organization declared free of Ebola transmission on Nov. 7. Travelers departing Sierra Leone will remain…
The AHA seeks applications through Jan. 22 for the 2016 Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership. Named after AHA President Emeritus Dick Davidson, the annual award honors a state, regional or metropolitan hospital association that demonstrates exceptional…
The Internal Revenue Service publicly confirmed Friday that hospitals are permitted to report expenditures for clean and safe housing as community benefit expenditures on page 1 of Schedule H, which includes calculations for those activities that the IRS views unquestionably as community benefit.…
Senate Finance Committee leaders seek comment through Jan. 26 on policy options the committee is considering to improve how Medicare treats beneficiaries with multiple, complex chronic illnesses.
The Senate Friday passed by unanimous consent the Mental Health Awareness and Improvement Act (S. 1893). Sponsored by Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), the bill reauthorizes federal programs to prevent…
The AHA Friday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to include hospital services in the list of core services that states must review to ensure that proposed rate changes in the Medicaid fee-for-service program do not affect beneficiary access to covered Medicaid services.
The AHA supports the stronger network adequacy standards proposed for qualified health plans in the 2017 Health Insurance Marketplace, but urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to apply all network adequacy standards to the lowest cost-sharing tier of any tiered network to prevent…