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The New Jersey Hospital Association yesterday named as its next president and CEO Cathleen Bennett, an attorney who currently serves as commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health. Bennett will assume her new duties Nov. 9. She will succeed Betsy Ryan, who has led the organization since…
One death a day in Maine is caused by an opioid overdose. Bridgton family practice physician Craig Smith, M.D., a member of the Bridgton Hospital medical staff, is on the front line in the battle against the crisis that is harming people of all ages and all walks of life – not just in Maine…
The Senate will not vote this week on a proposal by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Bill Cassidy, R-La., Dean Heller, (R-Nev., and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the proposal’s sponsors and Senate Republican leaders said yesterday.
The Senate will not vote this week on a proposal by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Dean Heller (R-NV) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act, the proposal’s sponsors and Senate Republican leaders announced this afternoon.
The AHA yesterday again urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to remove its overall hospital star ratings from Hospital Compare and explore alternative approaches. Commenting on proposed updates to the ratings methodology, AHA noted that further analysis performed after the initial…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released the preliminary Medicare payment rates for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests and advanced diagnostic laboratory tests in calendar year 2018. The rates are based on a weighted median of private insurer payment rates, as required by a…
In the wake of Hurricane Maria, the Food and Drug Administration is working to avoid critical shortages of drugs made in Puerto Rico, which is home to dozens of drug and device manufacturing facilities, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., announced yesterday.
By 2026, the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson proposal to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act would increase the number of uninsured Americans by more than 20 million and reduce federal funding to states by $275 billion, AHA told the Senate Finance Committee today in a statement…
The AHA today urged members of the U.S. Senate “to protect our patients and find ways to maintain coverage for as many Americans as possible” by rejecting the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson proposal to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act.
Eleven state insurance commissioners and 25 former commissioners today urged congressional leaders to oppose the Graham-Cassidy proposal to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act. “Instead, we ask that you work toward a bipartisan bill that would improve market stability,”…