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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services seeks comments to inform its implementation of changes to Medicare payment for physicians and eligible professionals under Section 101 of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. Section 101 repeals the Medicare Sustainable Growth…
An HVAC task force, whose members include the AHA’s American Society for Healthcare Engineering, today issued interim guidance to help health care facilities maintain appropriate temperature and humidity control in operating rooms and sterile processing departments as it works to achieve…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week re-issued hospital-specific reports to all hospitals in the fiscal year 2016 Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program to correct inaccuracies in the surgical site infection measure scores. The revised reports also include updated…
Hospitals are on a journey to improve and transform care based on the unique needs of their community, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack writes in an opinion piece published Saturday in Modern Healthcare. “Regardless of which path they are travelling, hospitals share a public policy…
AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust affiliate is one of 17 organizations selected to lead Hospital Engagement Networks for another year under the Partnership for Patients initiative, a public-private collaboration to reduce preventable hospital-acquired conditions and 30-day…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a proposed rule that would revise the Medicare payment system for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests and implement other changes required by section 216 of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014.
If nurses continue to enter the workforce at the current rate, the U.S. would have about 4% fewer registered nurses than needed by 2025, according to a study in the October issue of Medical Care. That’s a “remarkable turnaround” compared with the nearly 30% shortage predicted…
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health this week released a free online course for emergency responders on strategies to reduce risks from fatigue during emergency response and recovery operations requiring long work shifts. The agency also released a course for nurses…
Participating hospitals and other health care providers will offer free, anonymous mental health screenings Oct. 8 as part of the 25th annual National Depression Screening Day. To find a local screening site, visit www.helpyourselfhelpothers.org. AHA is a supporter of the annual event, sponsored by…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will continue to pay claims and implement ICD-10 if the Congress fails to act by Oct. 1 on legislation to fund the government into fiscal year 2016, CMS Principal Deputy Administrator Patrick Conway said during a press briefing today on ICD-10…