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The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology yesterday released for comment draft updates to its list of “best available” standards and implementation specifications for interoperable clinical health information technology.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday updated its guidance on flexibility in the Medicare Part B claims auditing and quality reporting process as the medical community gains experience using the new ICD- 10 code set. The updates include revisions to questions 1 and 9, as…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has reorganized its website for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs to locate all information on requirements and resources for previous years in one place. The new webpage contains information from 2011 to 2014…
AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust has received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to create resources to support a culture of health in U.S. communities. The project will provide resources to help hospital and community partnerships document and assess their value,…
Anthem’s proposed acquisition of Cigna and Aetna’s proposed acquisition of Humana “merit the closest scrutiny from the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and Congress,” AHA told the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and…
Finding in favor of hospitals, a federal judge late yesterday rejected the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ arguments that it met all legal requirements for rulemaking when the agency cut hospitals’ inpatient payments by 0.2% in conjunction with its “two-midnight…
More than 700 hospitals have signed onto the AHA’s #123forEquity Pledge to Act Campaign to eliminate health care disparities, the association recently announced.In addition, the AHA noted that a number of partner organizations have endorsed the campaign, first announced at July’s…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday 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…
The National Academy of Medicine today issued recommendations for reducing diagnostic errors in health care, concluding that most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime.
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…