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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…
The Food and Drug Administration today issued final guidance revising blood donor deferral recommendations for individuals at increased risk for transmitting HIV. Since September 1985, FDA has recommended that blood establishments indefinitely defer male donors who have had sex with another…
About 6 million people signed up for health coverage at HealthCare.gov through Dec. 17, including 2.4 million who were new to the Health Insurance Marketplace, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell reported Friday. Dec. 17 was the deadline to enroll in coverage beginning Jan. 1, but…
The House and Senate today approved legislation funding federal programs through fiscal year 2016. The measure now goes to President Obama, who is expected to sign it.
A new AHA TrendWatch report offers guidance to post-acute providers and their partners as they evaluate new models of care delivery and payment. “These providers face an increasingly complex regulatory and market environment as health care transforms from a system that rewards volume to…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has approved a waiver to continue the Healthy Michigan Plan, which provides health coverage to nearly 600,000 residents with incomes up to 133% of the federal poverty level, Gov. Rick Snyder announced yesterday. The program launched in April…
“Since 2008, prices of some prescription drugs have more than doubled,” notes an AHA ad scheduled to begin next week in Iowa. The ad, which highlights one medicine that is $1,000 per pill and a heart drug whose price has increased 525%, asks presidential candidates what they will do to…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a Town Hall teleconference Dec. 21 to solicit input from hospitals and other stakeholders as it works to prepare rulemaking that will implement requirements under the Notice of Observation Treatment and Implication for Care Eligibility Act.