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The AHA, Association of American Medical Colleges, America’s Essential Hospitals, 340B Health and three hospital systems today asked a federal court to order the Department of Health and Human Services to make effective within 30 days a final rule requiring drug companies to disclose the ceiling…
An estimated 49 to 65 hospital inpatient suicides occur each year in the United States, far fewer than the widely cited estimate of 1,500, according to a new study reported in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
The AHA’s Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management has elected Dee Donatelli, acting principal at Dee Donatelli Consulting LLC, as the 2019 AHRMM Board chair-elect.
A nationally-recognized leader in hospital/physician relations and clinical integration, Nicholas Wolter, M.D., former CEO of Billings Clinic in Billings, Mont., died Sept. 7.
The AHA today voiced support for a Federal Communications Commission proposal to create a $100 million pilot program to support telehealth for low-income Americans.
Hospitals participating in the first year of Medicare’s Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model reduced payments for lower extremity joint replacement episodes by an average 3.3 percent more than hospitals that did not participate in the model.
The Food and Drug Administration Friday approved a new dosage option for buprenorphine and naloxone sublingual film, applied under the tongue as a maintenance treatment for opioid dependence.
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.16% in August to a seasonally adjusted 5,189,300 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
The Senate is expected to vote next week on the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018, a substitute amendment to the House-passed opioid package (H.R. 6).
The AHA appreciates the steps the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is taking to streamline the Quality Payment Program and reduce burden for clinicians, but “is very concerned about the collapse of payment rates for evaluation and management visit codes.”