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Leaders of the Senate Special Committee on Aging today announced a bipartisan investigation into pharmaceutical drug pricing.
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in collaboration with the Maryland Hospital Association and AHA’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative, tomorrow will host the first in a series of free webinars on Maryland’s global budgeting system for hospital services.…
Click here to view a video message from AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and AHA Chair-elect Designate Gene Woods, president and chief operating officer of Christus Health, on the #123forEquity Pledge to Act Campaign to eliminate health care disparities.
The AHA expressed disappointment over the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) decision to reduce hospital outpatient payment rates by 0.4% next year in its final rule for the outpatient prospective payment and ambulatory surgical center payment systems (PPS). However, in the final…
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today held a hearing on several Medicare and Medicaid bills. In a letter to the subcommittee, AHA expressed strong support for H.R.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has recalculated results for the calendar year 2013 Medicare spending per beneficiary measure after identifying an issue with data used in the calculation. Hospitals can review and correct their revised hospital-specific reports through Nov. 30, but…
The Department of Health and Human Services today announced a Nov. 20 stakeholders meeting on pharmaceutical innovation, access and affordability.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday approved Montana’s plan to expand Medicaid coverage in January to adults aged 19 to 64 with incomes below 138% of the federal poverty level. Under the five-year demonstration, authorized by the legislature in April, some…
The Coalition to Protect America’s Health Care has again installed digital and large-scale print ads at Reagan National Airport aimed at members of Congress and staff who travel frequently through the airport located just outside of Washington, D.C. The ads remind Congress to protect the…
The president Nov. 2 signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Act, P.L. 114-74, passed by Congress last week to raise the nation’s debt limit and set spending targets for the federal budget for the next two fiscal years. Site-neutral payments for new provider-based hospital outpatient departments are…