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About half of the nation’s more than 5,000 hospital laboratories were reporting notifiable conditions to public health agencies using electronic communications protocols as of last April, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While only 479 were…
International travelers are bringing a multidrug-resistant intestinal illness to the United States, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Shigella sonnei bacteria sickened 243 people in 32 states and Puerto Rico between May 2014 and February 2015 as…
Nebraska could receive more than $2.1 billion in federal Medicaid funding over five years and avoid $1 billion in state spending over 10 years if state lawmakers were to approve legislation to help nearly 80,000 low-income adults obtain health coverage through Medicaid, according to a new…
April is National Donate Life Month, commemorating those who have received or continue to wait for lifesaving transplants as well as the donors who save and heal lives. More than 123,000 U.S. patients are awaiting organ transplants to save their lives. Hospitals not only facilitate the medical…
Employment at the nation's hospitals increased by 0.16% in March to a seasonally adjusted 4,846,200 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. That's 7,900 more people than in February and 77,200 more than a year ago. Without the seasonal adjustment, which removes the effect of…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should withdraw its two-midnight policy and target Recovery Audit Contractor reviews to hospitals with the most short inpatient stays, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission said in final recommendations approved today. The commission also…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued an update on Medicare payment provisions that expired April 1, including exceptions to the outpatient therapy caps, add-on payments for ambulance services, payments for low-volume hospitals, payments for Medicare dependent…
President Obama yesterday issued an executive order authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to impose sanctions on foreign individuals or entities that engage in malicious cyber-enabled activities that create a significant threat to the national security, foreign policy, economic health or…
AHA’s Center for Healthcare Governance has released a free two-part webinar on managing population health and risk in the new care delivery and payment environment. Presenters from Navigant Healthcare discuss the transition from fee-for-service to fee-for-value and various provider-sponsored…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced an extension through April 30 of the prohibition on Recovery Audit Contractor inpatient hospital patient status reviews under the “two-midnight” policy. The current statutory prohibition required by the Protecting…