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Between 2022 and 2023, care denials increased an average of 20.2% and 55.7% for commercial and Medicare Advantage (MA) claims, respectively.
A new study based on research conducted by the Mercer consultancy and its partner Lightcast projects changes to the U.S. health care labor market by 2028 by state and metro and micro statistical areas.
AHA urges CMS to consider whether adjustments are necessary in its approach to annual market basket updates to ensure that beneficiaries continue to have access to high-quality outpatient care. We also urge CMS to eliminate the productivity cut for CY 2025, as detailed below.
The AHA urges CMS to work with Congress to provide a Physician Fee Schedule payment increase for 2025 and to develop a long-term plan for sustainable physician payment.
HRSA, which oversees the 340B program, has recognized the need for hospitals to partner with community and specialty pharmacies. Despite the demonstrated benefits to patients, these arrangements have been criticized by drug companies.
In this first episode of the new series “Caring for Our Kids,” learn about the Texas Children's Pediatric Cancer Survivorship Program, and the impact it has had on the lives of young cancer patients.
Information on how My AHA Connect app users can delete their user accounts.
In this conversation, Veronica Gillispie-Bell, M.D., OB-GYN at Ochsner Health, discusses successful strategies to reduce maternal morbidity after childbirth, and how these solutions should always start with equity at the forefront.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and National Security Agency assess that cyber actors affiliated with the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate 161st Specialist Training Center (Unit 29155) are responsible for computer network…
Executive Summary Tomcat is one of the most popular and widely-deployed web servers and Java-based application servers in the world, heavily leveraged by the U.S. health sector. Like any other software platform, vulnerabilities in Tomcat are constantly being discovered that can make it open to…