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Historic flooding in parts of the Midwest caused a number of Nebraska hospitals to be inaccessible by ground transportation, the Nebraska Hospital Association said in an email communication yesterday.
In a study of Blue Cross and Blue Shield enrollees reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, initial opioid prescriptions declined 54 percent between July 2012 and December 2017.
Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., will speak at the AHA Annual Membership Meeting on April 8 in Washington, D.C.
he Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission today released its March 2019 report to Congress, which recommends Congress phase in the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital reductions over a longer period and restructure the DSH allotment methodology based on the…
A record 33,417 medical school seniors and graduates were matched to U.S. residency positions today through the National Resident Matching Program, 1,518 more than last year.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today approved a Section 1115 waiver for Ohio that will require certain adults aged 19 to 49 to work or participate in training or community service for at least 80 hours per month to continue qualifying for Medicaid. The state expects the…
The Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association yesterday named Ann-Marie Alameddin as its president and CEO effective April 2.
Reps. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., and John Katko, R-N.Y., today introduced the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2019 (H.R. 1763) that would add up to 15,000 Medicare-funded residency positions over five years, similar to an AHA-supported bill (S. 348) introduced last month in the Senate.
The Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies today held a hearing to review the U.S. response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other emerging health threats.
Legislative proposals for a Medicare public option could negatively affect patient access to care and significantly reduce payments to hospitals, AHA Executive Vice President Tom Nickels said during a panel discussion today at America’s Health Insurance Plans’ National Health Policy Conference in…