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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed new contracts for Medicare recovery audit contractors violate contracting requirements under the Federal Acquisition Regulations, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled this week.
The nation’s three leading credit reporting agencies have agreed to wait 180 days before reporting medical debt on a consumer’s credit report and to remove the debt from the report after it’s paid by insurance, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced this week.
Overall hospital prices increased 0.4% in February, and were 0.4% higher than a year ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Prices for the subgroup of general medical and surgical hospitals increased 0.4%, and were 0.3% higher than in February 2014, according to the BLS' Producer Price…
The Food and Drug Administration today issued final guidance for makers of reusable duodenoscopes and other reprocessed medical devices aimed at assuring that their cleaning and disinfection or sterilization instructions consistently reduce microbial contamination.
Hospitals paid under the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system can apply through 11:59 p.m. ET April 1 for a hardship exception under the Medicare Electronic Health Records Incentive Program.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans diagnosed with cancer survive for five or more years, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among the most common cancer sites, the five-year relative survival rate (compared with comparable cancer-free persons)…
A new AHA guide offers hospital leaders a model for hospital-based violence intervention that can be tailored to each community's unique needs. “As the location where many victims of violence seek medical treatment, hospitals and health care systems are uniquely positioned to address violence…
The AHA today released a new report detailing the 24/7 role of America’s hospitals and the challenges threatening this essential part of the nation’s health care infrastructure.
The Internal Revenue Service yesterday posted guidance finalizing, with modifications, the correction and disclosure procedures under which certain failures to meet requirements of section 501(r) of the Affordable Care Act will be excused. Under the final Section 501(r) regulations for…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday updated an online tool that produces health profiles for all U.S. counties. The profiles show how each county compares with peer counties on certain indicators of mortality, morbidity, health care access and quality, health behaviors,…