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The Connecticut Hospital Association testified today against state legislation proposed by Gov. Dannel Malloy that would allow municipalities to levy property taxes on any off-campus property owned by a hospital.
Thursday is National Alcohol Screening Day, sponsored annually by Screening for Mental Health Inc. to bring attention to the needs of those with alcohol use disorders and their families. For more information and a promotional toolkit, visit http://mentalhealthscreening.org/programs/nasd.
The AHA today expressed concern that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s “roadmap” to achieve nationwide interoperability “is not sufficiently grounded in an assessment of present realities or focused enough on the steps that will enable public and private…
About half of the nation’s more than 5,000 hospital laboratories were reporting notifiable conditions to public health agencies using electronic communications protocols as of last April, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While only 479 were…
International travelers are bringing a multidrug-resistant intestinal illness to the United States, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Shigella sonnei bacteria sickened 243 people in 32 states and Puerto Rico between May 2014 and February 2015 as…
Nebraska could receive more than $2.1 billion in federal Medicaid funding over five years and avoid $1 billion in state spending over 10 years if state lawmakers were to approve legislation to help nearly 80,000 low-income adults obtain health coverage through Medicaid, according to a new…
April is National Donate Life Month, commemorating those who have received or continue to wait for lifesaving transplants as well as the donors who save and heal lives. More than 123,000 U.S. patients are awaiting organ transplants to save their lives. Hospitals not only facilitate the medical…
Employment at the nation's hospitals increased by 0.16% in March to a seasonally adjusted 4,846,200 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. That's 7,900 more people than in February and 77,200 more than a year ago. Without the seasonal adjustment, which removes the effect of…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should withdraw its two-midnight policy and target Recovery Audit Contractor reviews to hospitals with the most short inpatient stays, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission said in final recommendations approved today. The commission also…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued an update on Medicare payment provisions that expired April 1, including exceptions to the outpatient therapy caps, add-on payments for ambulance services, payments for low-volume hospitals, payments for Medicare dependent…