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More than 543,000 people selected a health plan through the federally-facilitated Health Insurance Marketplace during the first week of open enrollment, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today. Two-thirds of the plan selections were by 2015 enrollees who were actively…
A commentary in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine looks at preliminary first-year results from the Maryland All-Payer Model, launched last year by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and state to modernize Maryland’s unique all-payer rate-setting system for…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Homeland Security this week modified port-of-entry screening for travelers from Sierra Leone, which the World Health Organization declared free of Ebola transmission on Nov. 7.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response will purchase two antitoxin drugs for inhalational anthrax to add to the Strategic National Stockpile.
More than 75% of U.S. hospitals had adopted at least a basic electronic health record system by the end of 2014, up from 59% in 2013, according to a study reported online today by Health Affairs. About 40% of hospitals were able to meet all 16 core objectives for Stage 2 meaningful use, up…
The Medicare Part A deductible for inpatient hospital services will increase by $28 in calendar year 2016, to $1,288, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced yesterday. The Part A daily coinsurance amounts will be $322 for days 61-90 of hospitalization in a benefit period; $…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued three new FAQs clarifying how to attest to certain meaningful use measures for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs under the final rule modifying meaningful use requirements for 2015-2017.
The American Medical Association today urged the Department of Justice to block Aetna’s proposed acquisition of Humana and Anthem’s proposed acquisition of Cigna. “Our analyses of the proposed health insurance mergers reveal significant concerns with respect to the impact on…
The proposed mergers of health insurance giants Aetna and Humana and Anthem and Cigna are a bad deal for consumers, writes antitrust attorney David Balto, former policy director for the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, blogging at The Huffington Post. “[A]s Senator…
An AHASTAT blog post today highlights resources available to help hospitals care for and hire veterans. These include a Department of Veterans Affairs' consultation program and toolkit to help hospitals and health professionals treat veterans with post traumatic stress disorder.