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AHA yesterday urged the Senate Finance Committee to retain certain key tax code provisions related to 501(c)(3) hospitals as it develops recommendations for reforming the nation’s tax code.
President Obama Thursday signed into law the “Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act,” H.R. 2, legislation to permanently replace the flawed Medicare physician sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. The Senate April 14 voted 92-8 to pass the bill, which cleared the House on March…
Claims about hospital merger effects often rely on outdated data that do not reflect today’s dynamic market conditions, according to a new study.
Medicare spending per beneficiary grew just 0.2% in 2013, according to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services. That’s down from an average 1.8% growth between 2009 and 2012 and an average 5.9% growth between 2000 and 2008. “This has resulted in a new estimate…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today added star ratings for hospitals reporting consumer perception survey measures at Hospital Compare, including an overall star rating for performance on the 11 survey measures. The survey is called the Hospital Consumer Assessment of…
About 76% of non-federal acute-care hospitals reported having an electronic health record system in 2014, according to a report released today by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. That’s up from 59% in 2013 and an eight-fold increase since 2008,…
The AHA has extended to April 24 the deadline for all hospitals to submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey. The free web-based survey helps AHA measure the impact of Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor program on hospitals and advocate for needed changes. For more information on the RACTrac…
BY BRUCE VLADECK
When it comes to bundling payments for post-acute care, the AHA Thursday told Congress that now is the time for learning through testing new small-scale payment and delivery models, rather than drawing broad conclusions as reflected in the recently introduced Bundling and Coordinating Post-Acute…
The U.S. Senate last night voted 92-8 on final passage of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (H.R. 2), legislation to permanently replace the flawed Medicare physician sustainable growth rate formula. The bill now goes to the president’s desk for signature.