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President Trump today announced a National Biodefense Strategy to “more effectively prepare for and combat biological threats.”
The Senate last night voted 98-2 to approve the Patient Right to Know Drug Prices Act (S. 2554), a bill that would prohibit private health plans from restricting a pharmacist’s ability to inform enrollees when a drug would cost less without using their insurance.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a list of Medicaid payment arrangements that will qualify as advanced Alternative Payment Models for performance year 2019 under the Quality Payment Program’s all-payer combination option.
Oregon’s hospitals are again spending more on charity care despite having one of the lowest rates of uninsured residents in the country.
Leaders from the AHA and individual 340B hospitals today came together to announce new principles for ensuring good stewardship of the 340B program. The new AHA-led initiative seeks to strengthen the 340B program by increasing transparency while helping 340B hospitals better publicly communicate…
The Senate Sept. 17 passed the Opioid Crisis Response Act, a substitute amendment to the House-passed opioid package (H.R. 6).
Join representatives from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and others Sept. 20 for a webinar on outbreak response and incident management.
Cigna Corp. and Express Scripts today announced that the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division has cleared their pending merger, terminating the applicable waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act.
Clinicians should be alert for signs of carbon monoxide poisoning when treating patients from areas affected by Hurricane Florence, especially those without power, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in an advisory yesterday.
Eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals can now submit electronic clinical quality measure data for the calendar year 2018 reporting period for the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program and the Promoting Interoperability Program.