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An estimated 27.5 million U.S. residents (8.5%) lacked health insurance at some point in 2018, up from 25.6 million (7.9%) in 2017, the Census Bureau reported today.
The House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Health today held a hearing to discuss four bills intended to improve maternal health outcomes by advancing prevention efforts and access to care.
The Health Resources and Services Administration recently recognized more than 1,460 transplant centers and hospitals, including 339 small and rural hospitals, for their efforts to promote organ donation registration between October 2018 and April 2019.
The World Health Organization will host the first World Patient Safety Day Sept. 17, an opportunity for hospitals and health systems to share their good work and resources on patient safety, safety culture and patient engagement.
AHA supports the new home health payment model, required by law and to begin in calendar year 2020, but opposes the prospective behavioral adjustment proposed for next year, the association told the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today, noting the great difficulty in accurately…
Bayfront Health St. Petersburg (Fla.) has paid $85,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights and adopted a corrective action plan to settle a potential violation of the right of access provision of the HIPAA Rules, the agency announced today.
Thirty-three states and the U.S. Virgin Islands have reported more than 450 possible cases of lung illness associated with using e-cigarette products, including five deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday.
Employment at the nation's hospitals increased by 0.17% in August to a seasonally adjusted 5,253,200 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
The edits were originally scheduled to take effect in July.
The AHA today urged leaders of the Senate Committee on Appropriations to allow funding for the adoption of a unique patient identifier as part of the fiscal year 2020 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill.