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Connecting the uninsured with coverage is only a first step to improving health; the newly insured also need to be connected quickly to culturally competent primary care, Ramanathan Raju, M.D., president and CEO of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, said today at a panel sponsored…
A bipartisan group of 95 House lawmakers earlier this week urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to scuttle its proposed payment cut for hospital outpatient services and provide a positive update in its final outpatient prospective payment system (PPS) rule for 2016.
The AHA today urged Congress to pass the Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act. In a statement submitted to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights for a hearing on the legislation (S. 2102/ H.R.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today released a final “roadmap” for achieving a national health IT infrastructure that facilitates the secure exchange and use of electronic health information by 2024.
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General yesterday issued as part of National Health IT Week a policy reminder that the electronic health records safe harbor does not protect donations of health information technology items or services that have limited or…
The Comprehensive Primary Care initiative generated $24 million in gross savings in 2014, the first shared savings performance year of the program, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today. The initiative was launched in October 2012 to advance primary care by paying…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced the participants for the Comprehensive ESRD Care Model, a new accountable care organization model for Medicare patients with end-stage renal disease.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) today urged Congress to move forward on mental health reform. At a National Journal event on improving access to mental health care and reducing incarceration, Sen. Murphy said momentum was building for reform, citing a scheduled markup of…
Charity care alone cannot measure a hospital’s value to its community, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack said today at a Brookings Institution roundtable on health care economics after implementation of the Affordable Care Act. He took part in a panel examining a proposed “tradable…
The AHA Oct. 7 urged Congress to pass the Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules (SMARTER) Act, S. 2102/H.R.2745, legislation that would standardize the merger review process so that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) would be required to rely exclusively on the federal courts…