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“This is an exciting time,” writes AHA Chairman Jonathan Perlin, M.D., in a commentary today in Modern Healthcare, citing recent gains in life expectancy.
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation will review and answer questions about the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model during a 60-minute webinar at 2 p.m. ET on Nov. 30. Finalized Nov. 16, the new payment model will bundle payment to acute care hospitals for hip and knee…
The AAMI Foundation has released a free compendium designed to help hospitals and health care organizations meet The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goal on clinical alarms. The Joint Commission will begin documenting noncompliance with clinical alarm management in 2016. The…
About 1.6 million people have selected a health plan through the federally-facilitated Health Insurance Marketplace since the start of open enrollment Nov. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today. Two-thirds of the plan selections were by 2015 enrollees who…
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management and Health Research & Educational Trust encourage all hospitals to complete a survey about their efforts to address health care disparities and improve diversity management practices. Hospital CEOs who have not taken the survey received a…
The AHA is accepting nominations through Dec. 7 for its 2016 NOVA Awards. Leaders of AHA member hospitals and health systems are invited to nominate outstanding collaborative programs that improve community health status through health care, economic or social initiatives. Up to five awards…
The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to increase the number of hospital-based and physician office laboratories that qualify as applicable laboratories under its proposed rule for the new Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule to ensure its rates are representative of…
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday issued a safety announcement alerting health care providers to the possibility that the coating on certain intravascular medical devices may separate and cause injury to patients. Devices such as intravascular catheters, guidewires, balloon angioplasty…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services seeks comments on a draft ICD-9-CM code list for hip fracture diagnoses that it has developed in connection with its new payment model that will bundle payment to acute care hospitals for hip and knee replacement surgery. The Comprehensive Care…
The Department of Health and Human Services today released a notice with the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program federal medical assistance percentages for fiscal year FY 2017. The notice provides the state-by-state FMAP percentages for Medicaid, CHIP and disaster-…