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The Illinois Hospital Association and Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council have agreed to merge in January, the organizations announced yesterday.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services expects in March to make an early partial payment to eligible health plans under the transitional reinsurance program for the 2015 benefit year, in part due to surplus 2014 funds.
The Obama administration last week launched a public-private campaign to equip the public with knowledge and tools to stop life-threatening bleeding in emergency situations.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and National Library of Medicine have redesigned their website on Radiation Emergency Medical Management. The new site adds behavioral health resources and material for first…
The AHA’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative will offer a free webinar Wednesday at 12 p.m. ET on “Innovations for Eliminating Health Care Disparities.” The webinar will feature representatives from the 2015 AHA Equity of Care Award winners, Henry Ford Health…
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission today discussed policy options to preserve access to emergency care in rural areas in the wake of recent rural hospital closures. Staff presented two potential models that would allow rural prospective payment system and critical access hospitals to convert…
The Government Accountability Office today appointed 11 members to a new committee that will provide recommendations on physician payment models to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Health care spending continued to moderate in August at 5.6% growth year-over-year, according to the latest Economic Indicators from Altarum Institute's Center for Sustainable Health Spending. Prescription drug prices rose 4.7%, continuing to far outpace any other health care category. Prices…
The AHA and Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology will host a Twitter chat Oct. 21 on the important roles patients, families and health care professionals play in preventing infections. Topics will include hand hygiene, flu vaccination and antibiotic resistance. Join…
The AHA encourages all hospitals to submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey by Oct. 16. The free web-based survey helps AHA gauge the impact of Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor program on hospitals and advocate for needed changes. For more information on the RACTrac initiative, visit www.…