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This viewpoint article examines the barriers to improving health outcomes, eliminating disparities in health care and functioning within a sustainable budget. These barriers include stakeholder interests that may not be aligned with investments in population health, barriers to information transfer…
The statistics are staggering: The number of Americans diagnosed with diabetes has risen from 1.5 million in 1958 to 18.8 million in 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is estimated that more than 25 million Americans have diabetes, and about 79 million adults have…
Rick Pollack urges President Obama to protect the health care promised to program beneficiaries in your fiscal year (FY) 2015 Federal Budget by not including further reductions in payments for hospital services provided to seniors and the disabled under Medicare.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is pleased to support the Critical Access Hospital Relief Act (S.2037). This legislation would remove the 96-hour physician certification requirement as a condition of payment for critical access hospitals (CAHs).
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is pleased to support the Critical Access Hospital Relief Act (S.2037). This legislation would remove the 96-hour physician certification requirement as a condition of payment for critical access hospitals (CAHs).
H.R.3991 would amend the Social Security Act to remove the condition of payment but leave the condition of participation intact. A physician would not be required to state that the patient will be discharged or transferred in less than 96 hours in order for the CAH to be paid on that particular…
The undersigned organizations write to express immediate concerns confronting our respective members’ ability to comply with the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ambiguous policy regarding observation stays leaves hospitals in an untenable position, the AHA said in a friend-of-the-court brief filed yesterday in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
This webinar highlighted innovative approaches from two health care systems that have successfully deployed intergenerational management strategies.