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The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services not to implement a new market basket specific to inpatient rehabilitation facilities until the agency can ensure it accurately reflects costs for freestanding and hospital-based IRFs.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has posted updated Ebola guidance for U.S. hospitals evaluating emergency department patients who have traveled from Sierra Leone, Guinea or Liberia in the past 21 days. The new recommendations differ for patients from Liberia, where the Ebola…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended to June 30 the application deadline for its new Oncology Care Model, which seeks to provide better and more coordinated care at a lower cost to Medicare. Physician practices and payers who submitted timely and complete letters of…
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will fund three Centers of Excellence to study how high-performing health care systems promote evidence-based practices in delivering care. The AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust affiliate is a partner in one of the centers, which will…
The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday increased the coinsurance rate in the transitional reinsurance program for the 2014 benefit year from 80% to 100%, noting that reinsurance contributions exceeded requests for reinsurance payments.
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management (Institute) can more closely coordinate the many – but sometimes isolated – efforts underway to eliminate health care disparities and achieve health equity, says the organization’s new president and CEO.“One of the biggest…
The AHA yesterday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to articulate how it intends to coordinate implementation of the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting and Value-Based Purchasing programs with the Nursing Home Quality Initiative.
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS and Education today approved legislation that would provide $153 billion in discretionary funding for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and related agencies in fiscal year 2016, $3.7 billion less than this year.
The National Patient Safety Foundation yesterday issued guidelines to help health care organizations improve root cause analysis to investigate and prevent medical errors.
Effective today, travelers from Liberia to the United States no longer need to be actively monitored by or in daily contact with their health departments, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday. They will continue to be screened when departing Liberia and funneled…