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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday reported reinsurance and risk adjustment amounts for specific health plans for benefit year 2014.
The AHA's Physician Leadership Forum and Center for Healthcare Governance will present findings from their recent study on physician organization governance during a half-day complimentary program after the Health Forum/AHA Leadership Summit July 25 in San Francisco. The event will include case…
A report released today by the Institute of Medicine recommends strategies and actions to improve survival and quality of life following cardiac arrest, the third leading cause of death in the United States. About 395,000 cardiac arrests occur annually in the community and another 200,000 in…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia should overturn a National Labor Relations Board decision permitting an incumbent union at a hospital to organize only a small portion of the bargaining unit’s unrepresented non-professional employees, the AHA and Federation of American…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today updated the Open Payments website with 2014 data on transfers of value by drug and device manufacturers to physicians and teaching hospitals. The update also includes some 2013 data that could not be verified before the first data was…
Dialysis patients in New Jersey and New York City were about 20% less likely to visit an emergency department or be hospitalized in the week after Hurricane Sandy if they received dialysis before the storm, according to a study by the Department of Health and Human Services published Friday in…
Henry Ford Health System in Detroit and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ, will receive the second annual AHA Equity of Care Award July 24 at the Health Forum/AHA Leadership Summit in San Francisco. The award recognizes hospitals for their efforts to reduce health care…
Hospital representatives are invited to attend a webinar July 8 at 2 p.m. ET to review recent Recovery Audit Contractor policy developments and results from the AHA’s most recent RACTrac survey.
The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and National Institutes of Health will host a conference Aug. 10-11 in New York on translating Hurricane Sandy research into practice. The agencies funded a series of research grants that examine long-term…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will allow hospitals participating in the Medicare Electronic Health Record program for the first time in fiscal year 2015 to attest to meaningful use between now and Aug. 14, the agency advised the AHA. CMS previously intended to require these…