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The recent wave of increases in the cost of prescription drugs is straining hospital budgets and squeezing patients, hospital and other health care witnesses today told the Senate Aging Committee at a hearing on “sudden price hikes” in off-patent drugs.
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today held a hearing on several health care-related bills, including the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act (H.R. 2713). Introduced by Reps.
More than 2.8 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. Nearly two-thirds of the plan selections were by 2015 enrollees…
A new report reinforces the need for Kansas to develop a plan to expand Medicaid to uninsured low-income adults under the Affordable Care Act, according to the Kansas Hospital Association. Prepared by Manatt Health Solutions for Kansas Grantmakers in Health, the report estimates that Medicaid…
Health care is expected to add more jobs than any other sector through 2024, including at least 394,900 hospital jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projected today. In addition to hospitals, the agency anticipates roughly 760,000 new jobs in home health care, 736,000 in nursing and…
The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee today held a hearing to examine solutions to the rising trend in opioid abuse and overdose deaths in the U.S.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response encourages hospitals to participate in recently opened discussions on its Information Exchange about updating the Hospital Preparedness Program’s health care preparedness…
In an AHASTAT blog post today, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack responds to a recent Wall Street Journal analysis that questioned the recent reductions in hospital readmissions. “Here is what the numbers show,” Pollack writes.
The AHA encourages all hospitals to complete the eighth annual Information Technology Supplement to the AHA Annual Survey, which the association began mailing to CEOs Friday. Recipients should forward the survey to their chief information officer to complete on paper or online by Dec. 28.
Patrick Conway, M.D., Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services deputy administrator for innovation and quality and chief medical officer, will discuss the future of the global budgeting payment model during a Dec. 18 webinar hosted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in…