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The AHA today expressed concern that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services continues to propose measures for the Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Quality Reporting Program that are not central to treating the psychiatric disorder for which patients have been admitted.
Trust for America’s Health, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and UPMC Center for Health Security today called on the United States to take additional steps to prepare for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome virus and other emerging infections.
Many hospitals are implementing recommended strategies to engage patients and families as active members of the health care team, which can improve the patient experience and clinical outcomes and decrease use of health care services, according to a survey of U.S. hospitals by AHA’s Health…
The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) and AHIP Foundation last week released a framework to guide the development of effective care models for people with advanced chronic illness. “Our health care system’s fragmented approach to the treatment of chronic illness extracts a…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday issued an advisory on clinical considerations for health care providers evaluating ill travelers from Liberia to the United States. The advisory recommends that health care providers consider not only Ebola Virus Disease, but also other…
The House June 18 passed a number of health care bills, including a set of bills that would reform the Medicare Advantage program. Included in the package of MA bills were the AHA-supported Medicare Advantage Coverage Transparency Act. H.R.
The House of Representatives this week passed a number of health care bills, including a set of bills that would reform the Medicare Advantage program. Included in the package of MA bills were the AHA-supported Medicare Advantage Coverage Transparency Act (H.R.
The Medicare Independence at Home Demonstration saved more than $25 million, or an average $3,070 per beneficiary, in its first performance year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced yesterday. The three-year demonstration is testing whether primary care services…
Overdoses from prescription and other drugs are the leading cause of injury death in the United States, resulting in more than 44,000 deaths in 2013, according to a report released this week by Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. That’s more than…
AHA’s Center for Healthcare Governance has released a free webinar exploring the state of health care governance based on results of its 2014 National Governance Survey.