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The Food and Drug Administration today issued final guidance revising blood donor deferral recommendations for individuals at increased risk for transmitting HIV. Since September 1985, FDA has recommended that blood establishments indefinitely defer male donors who have had sex with another…
About 6 million people signed up for health coverage at HealthCare.gov through Dec. 17, including 2.4 million who were new to the Health Insurance Marketplace, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell reported Friday. Dec. 17 was the deadline to enroll in coverage beginning Jan. 1, but…
The House and Senate today approved legislation funding federal programs through fiscal year 2016. The measure now goes to President Obama, who is expected to sign it.
A new AHA TrendWatch report offers guidance to post-acute providers and their partners as they evaluate new models of care delivery and payment. “These providers face an increasingly complex regulatory and market environment as health care transforms from a system that rewards volume to…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has approved a waiver to continue the Healthy Michigan Plan, which provides health coverage to nearly 600,000 residents with incomes up to 133% of the federal poverty level, Gov. Rick Snyder announced yesterday. The program launched in April…
“Since 2008, prices of some prescription drugs have more than doubled,” notes an AHA ad scheduled to begin next week in Iowa. The ad, which highlights one medicine that is $1,000 per pill and a heart drug whose price has increased 525%, asks presidential candidates what they will do to…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a Town Hall teleconference Dec. 21 to solicit input from hospitals and other stakeholders as it works to prepare rulemaking that will implement requirements under the Notice of Observation Treatment and Implication for Care Eligibility Act.
The House today passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, legislation that would fund federal programs through fiscal year 2016.
The Health Information Technology Policy Committee yesterday sent Congress recommendations to overcome technical, operational and financial barriers to interoperable health IT, as mandated by legislation last year.
The full impact of electronic health information exchange on patient outcomes has not been adequately studied, according to a new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. While studies show more than three-quarters of U.S.