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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week announced the Medicare Advantage Valued-Based Insurance Design Model, which will test whether encouraging plan enrollees with certain conditions to consume high-value clinical services through reduced cost sharing and other approaches…
A new AHA infographic highlights how hospitals are working together and with physicians and other community partners to provide patients with convenient, high- quality and affordable care. “Even in the midst of such profound transformation, the growth in hospital prices is a historically…
The AHA’s Workforce Center yesterday participated in a Department of Labor summit for leaders in the ApprenticeshipUSA initiative, which aims to double the number of registered apprenticeships over the next five years.
Join AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack tomorrow at 4 p.m. ET for the next members-only Town Hall webcast. Melinda Hatton, AHA senior vice president and general counsel, and Josh Soven, AHA outside counsel and a partner at Gibson Dunn, will discuss the recently announced acquisitions involving four…
Passage of the Protecting Access to Rural Therapy Services Act, or PARTS Act, H.R. 1611/S. 257, the Critical Access Hospital Relief Act, H.R. 169/S. 258, and the Rural Community Hospital (RCH) Demonstration Extension Act, H.R. 672/S. 607, are key parts of the AHA’s rural hospital advocacy agenda.…
Passage of the Protecting Access to Rural Therapy Services Act, or PARTS Act, H.R. 1611/S. 257, the Critical Access Hospital Relief Act, H.R. 169/S. 258, and the Rural Community Hospital (RCH) Demonstration Extension Act, H.R. 672/S. 607, are key parts of the AHA’s rural hospital advocacy agenda.…
The AHA on Sept. 8 expressed support for the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CCJR) payment model, but urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to “provide hospitals with the necessary tools to be successful under the program and appropriately balance the risk…
The Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Payment model could help further hospital efforts to transform care delivery through improved care coordination and financial accountability, the AHA told the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in comments submitted today.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposal to pay explicitly for advanced care planning services under the physician fee schedule will help ensure that Medicare beneficiaries are able to develop advanced care plans with their medical care providers, AHA Executive Vice…
The AHA Friday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to withdraw a proposed 3.41% coding cut in its proposed rule for the home health prospective payment system in calendar year 2016. The rule bases the proposed cut on an analysis of nominal case-mix change in CYs 2000 through 2009…