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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended to Dec. 31 the deadline for submitting electronic clinical quality measure data for eligible hospitals participating in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting program voluntary electronic reporting option. The extension applies only to…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday released preliminary estimates underlying Medicare Advantage rates for 2017. According to CMS’s analysis, the Medicare fee-for-service baseline rate will increase by 3.1% in 2017. The FFS baseline measures traditional Medicare spending…
The Occupational Safety & Health Administration has created a new webpage featuring strategies and tools for preventing workplace violence in health care settings. According to OSHA, the rate of serious workplace violence incidents was more than four times higher in health care settings…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has awarded $110 million in End-stage Renal Disease Network funding to seven groups. The five-year grants will support efforts to improve quality of care for individuals with ESRD who require dialysis or transplantation.
More adults have stable health insurance coverage as a result of the coverage expansion provided by the Affordable Care Act, the Urban Institute’s Health Reform Monitoring Survey reported today. The share of non-elderly adults reporting stable health coverage throughout the previous year…
The Advisory Panel on Hospital Outpatient Payment, which advises the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding the appropriate level of supervision for hospital outpatient therapeutic services, will hold its next public meeting March 14-15 in Baltimore. Presentations for consideration…
The AHA today awarded its 2015 Shirley Ann Munroe Leadership Award to Vince Oliver, CEO and superintendent of Island Hospital in Anacortes, WA. The award recognizes small or rural hospital leaders who have improved health care delivery in their communities through innovative and progressive efforts…
Island Hospital, a 43-bed county hospital in rural Anacortes, Wash., (population 16,000) is a healthy hospital building a healthier community. But there were lean times before Vince Oliver came on board as its president and CEO in 2000.
Hospitals are making “substantial progress in improving safety,” according to a Dec. 1 report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) that found a 17% decline in hospital-acquired conditions (HAC) from 2010 to 2014. That translates to 87,000 lives saved and nearly $20…
Hospitals are making “substantial progress in improving safety,” according to a new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that found a 17% decline in hospital-acquired conditions from 2010 to 2014. That translates to 87,000 lives saved and nearly $20 billion in health care…