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Congress should be skeptical of certain research cited by America’s Health Insurance Plans at a recent hearing on “competition in the health care marketplace,” AHA said today in a letter to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute this week approved $83 million in funding for 26 research studies on a range of conditions and patient populations. Two of the awards totaling $29.5 million will support studies on caring for people infected with hepatitis C.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today awarded $22.8 million in grants to 24 state health departments, six universities and one American Indian tribe to promote colorectal cancer screening among adults aged 50-75, including low-income and other at-risk populations. The recipients…
Oct. 11 is the deadline to apply for the 2016 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize. The award recognizes hospitals that have committed to achieving the Institute of Medicine’s six quality aims, are improving the health status of their communities and provide replicable models for the hospital…
Anthem’s proposed acquisition of Cigna and Aetna’s proposed acquisition of Humana “would further concentrate an already heavily concentrated health insurance industry by eliminating two of the largest five insurers, and result in negative consequences for both health care…
Two Senate committee chairmen and 116 members of the House this week asked the Department of Health and Human Services to refrain from finalizing Stage 3 Meaningful Use requirements for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records programs at this time. Sens.
Anthem’s proposed acquisition of Cigna and Aetna’s proposed acquisition of Humana “would further concentrate an already heavily concentrated health insurance industry by eliminating two of the largest five insurers, and result in negative consequences for both health care…
The U.S. Senate last night approved by unanimous consent AHA-supported legislation (S. 599) to extend the Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Demonstration Program, which allows eligible states to pay certain institutions for mental disease for emergency psychiatric care provided to Medicaid…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should do more to ensure that Medicare Advantage organizations offer adequate provider networks to meet enrollees’ needs, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
Representatives from selected non-federal initiatives working to facilitate electronic health record interoperability say key challenges include insufficient standards, variation in state privacy rules, patient record matching, customization and other costs, and governance/trust-related issues,…