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Fred Gattas Jr. and Margaret Wagner Dahl will serve as chair and chair-elect, respectively, for the AHA's 2015 Committee on Governance. Gattas, who recently served as board secretary, is a trustee at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. Dahl is a board member at…
More than 100 hospitals have worked with the Wisconsin Hospital Association to improve care for more than 9,000 patients over the past three years, avoiding more than $87 million in health care costs, according to a report released today by the Wisconsin Hospital Association.
Virginia hospitals and health systems provided almost $3 billion in community benefit and other types of community support in 2013, according to a report by the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association. “It has not been an easy time for Virginia’s health care providers,…
Sharing best practices and spurring on peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the three-year AHA/Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET) Hospital Engagement Network (HEN), which ended last December.The HRET network worked with 31 state hospital associations to reduce inpatient harm and…
The AHA late Friday filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the Department of Health and Human Services in a federal lawsuit seeking to exclude all drugs with an “orphan” designation from an HHS interpretive rule expanding the 340B Drug Pricing Program to rural and cancer hospitals under…
The Government Accountability Office Friday issued a report summarizing actions by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to support the Oct. 1 transition to the ICD-10 coding system for health care claims. The findings are based on information collected from CMS and a sample of 28…
The Food and Drug Administration Friday issued final guidance on medical device data systems. The guidance confirms the agency’s intention not to enforce regulations for technologies that receive, transmit, store or display data from medical devices unless they involve active patient…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday published a final list of Essential Community Providers for plan year 2016, available on the CMS website under “Other QHP Application Resources.” Health insurers use the annual list to identify providers meeting ECP…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday issued a rule finalizing certain requirements for private Medicare Advantage and Part D prescription drug plans beginning in contract year 2016. The provisions cover a broad range of administrative areas. They were included in the…
The AHA seeks hospital and health system trustees to serve on its Committee on Governance, Regional Policy Boards, and other governing councils and committees beginning in 2016. Interested trustees are invited to view the Call for Nominations and submit an application through Feb. 25.