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The average annual premium for employer-sponsored family health coverage rose 4% this year to $17,545, according to the latest annual survey of employer-sponsored health insurance by the Kaiser Family Foundation and AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust. The average annual…
Finding in favor of hospitals, U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss Sept. 21 rejected the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) arguments for imposing a 0.2% Medicare payment cut on hospitals as part of its “two-midnight” policy. The judge did not order HHS to return…
The “unprecedented” consolidation that would result from recently announced health insurance company acquisitions threatens consumers and the nation’s health care system, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack Sept. 22 told a Senate Judiciary Committee panel.
Tim McKinney started the nonprofit United Global Outreach, Inc. (UGO) six years ago with the mission to “transform forgotten communities into places in which we’d all want to live.”UGO focused its efforts on Bithlo, a neglected community in Florida’s East Orange County with…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today updated the federal government’s five-year plan for using health IT to improve health care quality and health, lower costs and engage patients. “The work…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday extended the deadline for certain health insurance issuers to distribute medical loss ratio rebates to enrollees. The one-month extension applies to issuers that CMS asked to validate and reconcile their risk corridors results, or revise and…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released premium and cost information for Medicare Advantage and Part D prescription drug plans for the 2016 calendar year.
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management and Health Research & Educational Trust last week mailed hospital CEOs their 2015 survey to learn more about hospitals’ ongoing efforts to address health care disparities and improve diversity management practices. All hospitals are…
The AHA’s American Society for Healthcare Engineering, in collaboration with The Joint Commission, has released the first in a new series of resources to help health care facilities comply with the most challenging life safety and environment-of-care accreditation standards. Additional resources…
The AHA and Federation of American Hospitals today urged the National Labor Relations Board to affirm its long-standing position requiring the consent of both employers if a bargaining unit combines a sole employer’s workers with those found to be joint-employees with another employer.