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The Senate adjourned early this morning for a two-week recess after concluding work on its fiscal year 2016 budget resolution, without voting on H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act. H.R. 2 would replace the Medicare physician sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. Senate…
National Hospital Week (NHW) is May 10-16. Many hospitals and health systems commemorate the week by celebrating the employees, volunteers and others who contribute to their collective work. For those planning events or other activities, NHW-branded gifts, giveaways and awards are still available…
At a White House event with President Obama, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell today kicked off the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network, a forum for public-private partnerships to advance health care payment models that promote quality and value.
Nine national hospital organizations, including the AHA, today expressed support for bipartisan legislation to permanently replace the Medicare physician sustainable growth rate formula. “H.R. 2 will move physicians toward payment based on value rather than volume, a change that has been led…
Premature deaths declined in 60% of the nation’s counties between 2004-2006 and 2010-2012, according to county health rankings released today by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. The rankings define premature deaths as those…
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation Tuesday will host the third in a series of Open Door Forums on its Next Generation Accountable Care Organization Model, which will allow participants to assume higher levels of financial risk and reward than the Pioneer Model and Medicare Shared…
The spring 2015 issue of AHA’s Great Boards newsletter is now available and features articles on the results of AHA’s national governance survey and characteristics of high-performing boards. Administered by AHA's Center for Healthcare Governance, the free quarterly newsletter…
The AHA today voiced support for H.R. 2, legislation filed this morning by House Republican and Democratic leaders to permanently replace the Medicare physician sustainable growth rate formula. About $70 billion of the roughly $210 billion cost of replacing the SGR would be offset by reductions to…
Congress should preserve the 340B Drug Pricing Program because it helps hospitals and other eligible entities improve access to comprehensive health care services for more patients, especially low-income and uninsured patients, the AHA today told the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee.
The Veterans Choice Program will use driving distance to determine the distance between a veteran’s residence and the nearest VA medical facility, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced today. The department expects to implement the policy change through an interim final rule in the…