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The AHA's Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management has elected as its chair-elect for 2018 Robert Taylor, senior vice president of supply chain at RWJBarnabas Health in Oceanport, NJ. As chair-elect, Taylor will become chair of the AHRMM board in 2019. The AHA personal…
As urged by the AHA and others, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services advisory panel today recommended that the agency not finalize for 2018 a proposal that would drastically cut Medicare payments for drugs acquired under the 340B Drug Pricing Program. In July, CMS proposed to pay…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday rescinded changes to its billing process for Partial Hospitalization Program services that were suspended last year.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response has released several new resources for health care coalitions. The resources include preparedness and response plan templates, a gap analysis tool, pandemic checklist and surge tool training. ASPR…
President Trump Friday signed into law the FDA Reauthorization Act (H.R. 2430). The bill reauthorizes and amends four FDA user fee programs under which companies that develop drugs and medical devices partially pay for premarket review of their products.
Commenting today on the proposed rule updating the clinician quality payment program for 2018, AHA applauded the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for responding to its long-standing request to develop a facility-based measurement option for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System. The…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued answers to frequently asked questions about payments to Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program managed care organizations and prepaid inpatient health plans for patients in an institution for mental disease.
The Health Resources and Services Administration has provided an update on its new 340B Office of Pharmacy Affairs Information System, which includes a new registration system and a new secure pricing system. HRSA said the registration component of the new 340B OPAIS will be released in mid-…
The Trump administration has indicated it will make this month's cost-sharing reduction payments to health insurers, according to news reports yesterday. Insurers use the federal payments to reduce out-of-pocket costs for low-income individuals purchasing coverage through the Health Insurance…
The Health Resources and Services Administration today proposed delaying until July 1, 2018 the effective date of its final rule on 340B drug ceiling prices and civil monetary penalties for manufacturers. The final rule has been subject to multiple delays since January, and most…