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Hospital leaders today urged the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies to eliminate unnecessary regulatory burdens and support federal programs critical to maintaining access to care in rural communities.
The number of uninsured working-age adults fell by 16.9 million between September 2013 and February 2015, to 25.8 million, according to a survey by RAND Corporation published online today by Health Affairs. Based on a nationally representative panel of 1,589 adults, the survey tracked…
The Senate voted 51-48 last night to approve a fiscal year 2016 budget conference agreement. Approved by the House last week, the budget plan would balance the budget within 10 years while saving more than $5 trillion and repealing the Affordable Care Act.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently issued a “strategic vision” for how it will administer the Physician Quality Reporting System, Physician Feedback/Value-Based Payment Modifier Program and other physician quality reporting programs. The document outlines five…
An estimated 42% of Medicare fee-for-service payments were value-oriented in 2013, according to a scorecard released yesterday by Catalyst for Payment Reform. About one-third of the payments were related to pay-for-performance programs, 12% to shared savings programs and 2% to shared-risk…
AHA’s Center for Healthcare Governance has released a free two-part webinar on understanding Population Health Management. Presenters from Kaufman Hall define population health management for health care boards and executives, and describe its rationale and purpose. They also explore a…
Allegiance Health in Jackson, Mich., is in the “messy middle” of moving from being a provider of “sick care” to a community wellness-based system, says president and CEO Georgia Fojtasek.
At this week’s AHA Annual Membership Meeting, the association recognized people and organizations that improve America’s health care. Among the major awards presented at the meeting were:
Hospitals and other providers need “smarter,” more streamlined regulations to help them improve care in a rapidly changing health care environment, Rep. Charles Boustany, R-LA, today told attendees at the AHA Annual Membership Meeting. Appearing from Louisiana via satellite, the House…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday posted its annual update to the 2014 electronic clinical quality measures. Eligible hospitals and professionals will use the updated specifications to electronically report eCQMs for CMS quality reporting programs in calendar year 2016,…