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Rates of melanoma – the deadliest form of skin cancer – doubled over the past three decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported yesterday. Melanoma rates increased from 11.2 cases per 100,000 people in 1982 to 22.7 cases per 100,000 in 2011, according to the…
The proportion of workers with employer-sponsored health coverage remained steady at about 70 percent between June 2013 and March 2015, according to a new issue brief from the Urban Institute Health Policy Center and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The time period coincides with the first two…
Some 10.2 million people had signed up and paid their premiums for health insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges as of March, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said yesterday. The agency described the coverage as “effectuated,” which means…
The AHA and American Medical Association today released new guidance on best practices for reimagining traditional relationships between physicians and hospital executives. The six principles, the result of more than two years of work between the associations, provide a framework for physicians and…
AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to “exert greater oversight” to ensure that both state governments and Medicaid managed care organizations operating in the states comply with mental health parity standards.
The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Health today held a hearing on the “VA’s ability to promptly pay non-VA providers.” Testifying for the AHA, Vince Leist, president and CEO of North Arkansas Regional Medical Center, highlighted hospitals…
The Senate Finance Committee today approved by voice vote the Chairman’s Mark of the Audit & Appeal Fairness, Integrity, and Reforms in Medicare Act of 2015, a bipartisan bill to make changes to the Medicare audit and appeals process. The bill would make several changes to how…
A lack of prompt payment by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and its contractors “hinders access to care for veterans who need non-VA services and undermines the viability of non-VA hospitals and the essential services they provide to their communities,” an AHA witness June 3…
AHA Executive Vice President Rick Pollack recently talked to AHA News about the funding challenges facing hospitals. Listen in here.
The House Ways and Means Committee today approved 10 health care-related bills, including legislation that would provide certain exceptions to the moratorium on new long-term care hospital beds and facilities; a package of bills to reform the Medicare Advantage program; and a bill to repeal the…