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Tax-exempt hospitals’ community benefit activities represented 9.67% of their total expenses for Tax Year 2011, the Internal Revenue Service said in a report recently submitted to Congress. The results are consistent with an Ernst and Young report prepared for AHA for the same period,…
America’s community hospitals contributed nearly $2.6 trillion to the U.S. economy in 2013, including 5.6 million jobs, according to report released today by the AHA. Hospitals are the second largest source of private-sector jobs, accounting for one of nine jobs with ripple effects…
As Congress prepares to address a physician payment fix, the Coalition to Protect America’s Health Care this week launched a new television ad and campaign urging Congress to reject payment cuts that would limit patients’ access to hospital care. The campaign includes ad displays at…
Barbara Muesing, a trustee and auxiliary member at Essentia Health in Fosston, MN, will chair the AHA's 2015 Committee on Volunteers. The specialty committee of the AHA Board of Trustees focuses on the roles, responsibilities and services of organized volunteers and auxilians, as well as the…
The country’s highest presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improvement and visionary leadership, the Baldrige Award recognizes businesses, education and health care organizations that have made outstanding achievements in seven areas: leadership; strategic…
Sens. Charles Grassley (R-IA), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Friday introduced AHA-supported legislation (S. 607) that would extend the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration for five years. The program enables rural hospitals with fewer than 51 acute-care…
The AHA today urged the Department of Veterans Affairs to improve the Veterans Choice Program to address “roadblocks” to veterans’ access to care and broader participation by non-VA providers. “While we understand that the VA had an extraordinarily short timeframe in which…
A new report evaluating the effects of measures used in 25 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services quality reporting programs from 2006 to 2013 “demonstrates that the nation has made clear progress in improving the health care delivery system to achieve the three aims of better care…
Fourteen group practices are receiving a 4.89% increase in their Medicare payments in 2015 based on their 2013 performance on quality and cost measures under the Physician Feedback/Value-Based Payment Modifier Program, and 11 are receiving a 0.5% or 1% decrease, the Centers for Medicare &…
Four national hospital rating systems for consumers vary widely in their results, according to a study reported today in Health Affairs. “No hospital was rated as a high performer by all four national rating systems,” the study found. “Only 10% of the 844 hospitals rated as a…