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Withdrawing health insurance subsidies in states with a federally facilitated Health Insurance Marketplace “would be a disaster for millions of lower- and middle-income Americans,” the AHA, Federation of American Hospitals, Association of American Medical Colleges, and America’s…
Hospitals and other facilities that have already submitted 2014 patient safety and long-term care data to the National Healthcare Safety Network should print their completed surveys before the network is updated on Jan. 31 and re-enter the data after Feb. 2, according to a network notice. They also…
About 9.5 million consumers selected or were re-enrolled in a health plan during the first two months of open enrollment in the 2015 Health Insurance Marketplace, according to report released yesterday by the Department of Health and Human Services. The total includes 7.1 million people in 37…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a webinar tomorrow at 12 p.m. ET for eligible hospitals submitting 2015 quality data using the Quality Reporting Document Architecture, a standard document format for the exchange of electronic clinical quality measure data. The webinar…
Every year the Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA), like many other state, metropolitan and regional hospital associations across the country, releases an annual report that describes the many ways in which its hospitals help build healthier communities. The MHA recently released its 2014…
Sens. Pat Roberts (R-KS) and Jon Tester (D-MT) today introduced a Senate companion to the Critical Access Hospital Relief Act (S. 258/H.R. 169), AHA-supported legislation that would remove the 96-hour physician certification requirement as a condition of payment for critical access hospitals.
Sens. Jerry Moran (R-KS), Jon Tester (D-MT), and John Thune (R-SD) today introduced the Protecting Access to Rural Therapy Services (PARTS) Act (S. 257), AHA-supported legislation that would allow general supervision by a physician or non-physician practitioner for many outpatient therapeutic…
The president will request $1.2 billion to combat and prevent antibiotic resistance in his fiscal year 2016 budget proposal, the White House announced today. The request includes more than $650 million for the National Institutes of Health and Biomedical Advanced Research and Development…
The Internal Revenue Service yesterday issued a notice that provides limited penalty relief for taxpayers who have a balance due on their 2014 income tax return as a result of reconciling advance payments of the premium tax credit for eligible individuals and families purchasing coverage…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today approved Indiana’s plan to expand its Healthy Indiana Plan for low-income uninsured adults as an alternative to expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. “It’s a great day for so many in our state, including hard-…