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President Obama today announced his intent to nominate David Shulkin, M.D., to serve as under secretary for health at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Carolyn Clancy, M.D., has served as interim under secretary since last June, when acting under secretary Robert Jesse, M.D., completed a…
The departments of the Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services yesterday published final rules allowing group health plans to offer certain limited benefits that wrap around eligible individual insurance, Basic Health Plan coverage or a Multi-State Plan as “excepted benefits,…
More than half of Americans (56%) have tried to get information on out-of-pocket costs before getting care, according to a new survey by Public Agenda. About 40% sought price information before a medical test, 38% before visiting a specialist, 37% before visiting a primary care doctor, and 25…
A recent cyber attack against information technology systems at health insurer Premera Blue Cross serves as another potent reminder to hospitals and other health care organizations of the importance of ongoing initiatives to prevent and protect against cybersecurity risks.
The AHA’s American Society for Healthcare Engineering Monday presented Vista Awards to three hospital teams for construction, renovation and infrastructure projects that exemplify outstanding collaboration in creating optimal health care environments. The winners are Baystate Medical Center…
Harnessing the power of information technology to improve care requires giving providers greater flexibility to deploy electronic health records, holding vendors accountable for safe, interoperable products and providing certainty on the transition to the ICD-10 coding system by implementing the…
Healthy competition can be a good thing, but it also can distract from the main goal. That was the case for the leaders of Baptist Healthcare System of South Carolina and Richland Memorial Hospital, who – after decades of rivalry – in 1996 said enough was enough. Their state faced major…
House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) today unveiled the committee’s budget plan for fiscal year 2016, which would reduce Medicare spending by $148 billion and Medicaid and other health care spending by $913 billion over 10 years. Overall, the plan would reduce spending by $5.…
Harnessing the power of information technology to improve care requires giving providers greater flexibility to deploy electronic health records, holding vendors accountable for safe, interoperable products and providing certainty on the transition to the ICD-10 coding system by implementing the…
AHA today voiced support for the Improving Access to Emergency Psychiatric Care Act (S. 599), bipartisan legislation to extend the Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Demonstration Program. The legislation would extend the demonstration through September 2016 or whenever the U.S. Department of Health…