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The AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust recently elected three members to its Board of Trustees for three-year terms that began Jan. 1. The new board members are: Chris Durovich, president and CEO of Children’s Health System of Texas; Alison Fleury, senior vice president of…
Despite offering some additional details, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) failed again in its Dec. 1 notice to establish a rational and lawful basis for cutting inpatient prospective payment system (PPS) payments by 0.2% in conjunction with its two-midnight policy, the AHA…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services failed again in its Dec. 1 notice to establish a rational and lawful basis for cutting inpatient prospective payment system payments by 0.2% in conjunction with its two-midnight policy, despite offering some additional details, AHA told the agency…
President Obama’s fiscal year 2017 budget request will include nearly $1.1 billion in new funding to address prescription opioid abuse and heroin use, the White House announced today.
The United States Pharmacopeial Convention yesterday published a standard for hazardous drug handling in health care settings. Effective July 1, 2018, the standard will apply to hospitals and other health care facilities that handle drugs identified as hazardous or potentially hazardous by the…
Hospitals and others applying for a hardship exception to the Medicare Electronic Health Records Incentive Program to avoid a 2017 payment adjustment need not submit documentation of their circumstances but should retain it for their own records, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services…
The Society for Healthcare Strategy & Market Development and American College of Healthcare Executives last week released “Futurescan 2016-2021,” their annual guide to trends affecting the nation’s health care organizations. The publication features articles by eight thought…
Congress should adopt a single broad exception to federal fraud and abuse laws for financial relationships designed to foster collaboration, efficiencies and improvements in health care, the AHA last week told leaders of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees.
Health care providers should initiate antiviral treatment as soon as possible for all patients hospitalized with confirmed or suspected flu, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today, citing reports of severe respiratory illness or death in young- to middle-aged adults infected with…
The Food and Drug Administration today posted updated information on which makers of automated endoscope reprocessors for duodenoscopes have completed validation testing with adequate results.