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The AHA today urged the House Energy and Commerce Committee not to cut payments to hospitals to pay for Section 2123 of the 21st Century Cures Act, which provides for additional payment under Medicare Part A with respect to patient discharges involving new antimicrobial drugs.
The Senate Special Committee on Aging today held a hearing to examine “solutions to the hospital observation stay crisis.” Testifying for the AHA, Jyotirmaya Nanda, M.D., system medical director for informatics and physician compliance at the Center for Clinical Excellence and…
The AHA today urged the Food and Drug Administration to revise its draft guidance for mixing, diluting or repackaging biological products to permit longer beyond-use-dates if testing or validated studies show increased sterility and stability in a similar environment. “The AHA is concerned…
New Hampshire hospitals saw 22% fewer emergency visits, 27% fewer admissions and 15% fewer outpatient visits by uninsured patients in the first nine months of the state’s Medicaid expansion alternative, according to a report released today by the New Hampshire Hospital Association.
A new toolkit from the AHA’s Physician Leadership Forum addresses the appropriate use of elective percutaneous coronary intervention for patients with acute heart disease. Produced in collaboration with the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and Society for…
The Senate Special Committee on Aging today held a hearing to examine “solutions to the hospital observation stay crisis.”
When it comes to hospital disputes with Medicare’s recovery audit contractors – or RACs – this one is a doozy.Gretchen Case, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s director of compliance and revenue integrity experience in Los Angeles, recounts the case of one patient who underwent…
The AHA May 18 expressed concern that certain enforcement mechanisms contemplated for health care providers to further interoperability in the 21st Century Cures legislation are inappropriate and could have significant unintended consequences.
The AHA today urged Congress to preserve the ban on physician self-referral to new physician-owned hospitals and restrictions on the growth of existing physician-owned hospitals.