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The Illinois Hospital Association and Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council have completed their integration and yesterday announced a new name: the Illinois Health and Hospital Association (IHA). For more information, visit www.team-iha.org.
Post-acute care providers play an essential role in new care delivery models, but relief from burdensome regulations is needed so they can continue innovations that bring value to patients, a panel of post-acute leaders told congressional staff today at an AHA-sponsored briefing on Capitol Hill.
The AHA yesterday urged the Measure Applications Partnership to use the National Academy of Medicine’s “Vital Signs” recommendations as a foundation for identifying quality improvement priorities.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards yesterday issued an executive order to expand Medicaid to uninsured low-income adults under the Affordable Care Act beginning July 1. The expansion is expected to cover more than 350,000 residents earning up to 138% of the federal poverty level, or $16,242 a…
Nearly 8.7 million people selected a 2016 health plan between Nov. 1 and Jan. 9 in the 38 states using HealthCare.gov for open enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplaces, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported today. The total includes more than 74,000 people who signed…
Post-acute care (PAC) providers play an essential role in new care delivery models, but relief from burdensome regulations is needed so they can continue innovations that bring value to patients, a panel of PAC leaders told congressional staff Jan. 13 at an AHA-sponsored briefing on Capitol Hill.…
The National Academy of Medicine today released a conceptual framework for how social risk factors may influence health care use, outcomes and costs in Medicare payment and quality programs.
The AHA today recommended several changes to the Federal Communications Commission’s Healthcare Connect Fund to enhance participation and access to broadband for rural health care services. Specifically, AHA recommends that the FCC increase the HCF discount percentage from 65% to 85%; allow…
About 15 state attorneys general have joined the federal Justice Department's probe of the proposed mergers of Aetna and Humana and Anthem and Cigna, according to a news report by Reuters. Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts and Tennessee are reportedly among the states that have joined…
The Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association and a coalition of national and state consumer organizations and unions have raised concerns about the proposed Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana mergers and health insurance consolidation in general.