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Underage drinking in the U.S. decreased from 28.8% in 2002 to 22.7% in 2013, according to a new report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. During that period, underage binge drinking – having five or more drinks on the same occasion – decreased from 19…
Physician groups wishing to participate in the 2015 Physician Quality Reporting System Group Practice Reporting Option must register by June 30.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will host a telebriefing on Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, on Thursday, June 11 at 2 p.m. ET.
House leaders today proposed removing additional sequestration cuts on Medicare in 2024 to pay for the cost of extending the Trade Assistance Adjustment program. The proposal, which is contained in the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015, would replace the Medicare sequester extension approved…
The nation needs to make “rapid progress to develop secure systems for interoperability, not only to improve care and engage patients, but to support new models of care,” AHA today told members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
The Minnesota Hospital Association will receive the 2015 Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership for its work to improve health care quality, AHA announced today. The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania was selected as an honorable mention for the…
“Hospitals are at a crossroads as we move to the future,” says AHA Executive Vice President Rick Pollack in this brief AHA News podcast. “Everybody is trying to determine what the best pathway is to that future, and there are multiple pathways.”Pollack will become the AHA…
Rural hospital leaders today made their case for regulatory relief from federal policies – like the 96-hour physician certification requirement, direct physician supervision of outpatient therapeutic services and interoperability standards for health information technology – at a briefing on…
The AHA today responded to a report that is the “latest in a series of attempts to misrepresent” the 340B Drug Pricing Program and the benefits it helps bring to poor patients and vulnerable communities.
President Barack Obama today addressed members of the Catholic Health Association of the United States as it marked its 100th anniversary, thanking them for their efforts to help Americans access care and coverage. Speaking at the 2015 Catholic Health Assembly in Washington, D.C., he traced the 100…