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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended to Aug.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday announced the bidding timeline for Round 1 of the 2017 competition of the Medicare Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplies Competitive Bidding Program. The agency is required to re-compete the contracts at…
“A competitive commercial health insurance market is essential for access, affordability and innovation,” writes Melinda Reid Hatton, AHA senior vice president and general counsel, in an AHASTAT blog post today.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services tomorrow will host a call on its proposed star rating system for overall hospital-level quality. The call will review the overall star ratings methodology, Hospital-Specific Reports and lessons learned from the agency’s “dry run” test of the…
An estimated 25.3 million adults (11.2%) suffer from daily pain, according to a new analysis of data from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey. More than half of adults (56%) reported some pain in the three months before the survey. Adults in the two most severe pain groups were likely to…
The AHA has elected seven members to its Board of Trustees for three-year terms beginning Jan. 1, and appointed one member to fill a one-year vacancy.
The AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust affiliate is surveying hospitals about their employee health and wellness programs to identify best practices for promoting employees’ health. The confidential survey was mailed last month to all hospital CEOs for completion by Aug. 31.…
The proportion of U.S. adults without health insurance has declined about 5.6 percentage points since 2013, to 11.7%, according to an analysis released today by Gallup. Based on the Gallup-Healthways Well-being Index survey for the first half of 2015, the uninsured rate fell a collective 7.1…
Inpatient rehabilitation facilities must submit first-quarter 2015 data for five IRF Quality Reporting Program measures by Aug. 15 to avoid a 2 percentage point reduction in their annual payment update in fiscal year 2017. For more information, visit www.cms.gov.
The AHA’s Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management today presented its 2015 George R. Gossett Leadership Award to Brent Johnson, president and CEO of group purchasing organization Amerinet Inc. Before joining Amerinet, Johnson served as vice president of strategic…