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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.
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy will host on Wednesday in Oklahoma the first in a series of regional forums on evidence-based initiatives to prevent and treat prescription opioid drug abuse and heroin use.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday deployed tools to help consumers estimate their out-of-pocket costs and identify physicians, facilities and prescription drugs included in the networks and formularies for specific health plans offered at HealthCare.gov.
The recent violence in communities across America may signal a “new normal” for necessary readiness, but America’s hospitals will continue to be there, ready to care, writes AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack in a column today in AHA’s Hospitals & Health Networks…
The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is now accepting applications for its 2016 Baldrige Executive Fellows Program. Designed for senior leaders, the program is a one-year, leadership development experience designed to facilitate dialogue on all aspects of leadership and how it relates to a…
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission this week discussed draft recommendations that would provide no market basket update in 2017 for home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities or long-term care hospitals. In addition, the recommendations would rebase…
The departments of Health and Human Services and the Treasury today issued guidance explaining how they will evaluate applications for State Innovation Waivers under Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act, which allows states to receive federal funding to implement alternative models of…
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today published a notice correcting technical errors in its Oct. 16 final rule for the 2015 Edition HIT certification criteria. The notice also clarifies requirements for the exchange of the Common Clinical Data Set in…
The House of Representatives today approved by voice vote a continuing resolution funding the federal government through Wednesday, giving congressional leaders more time to negotiate an omnibus spending package. The Senate approved the measure yesterday. President Obama is expected to sign the…
Hospital representatives are invited to learn more about recent policy activity impacting the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor program and review results from the AHA's latest RACTrac survey during a webinar on Dec. 16 at 2 p.m. ET. The free web-based survey helps AHA gauge the impact…