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Mark Eastburg, Ph.D., President & CEO, Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services, Grand Rapids, MI
TimelineUnder ARRA, hospitals are eligible for Medicaid or Medicare incentive payments in 2011 and subject to penalties in 2015.
This website provides descriptive material and links to AHA and external resources to help you make sense of the federal requirements as you continue on the path of EHR adoption and optimization.
The One-Year Extension for Complying with HIPAA's Standards for Electronic Transactions: How Does it Affect You?
Keeping Our Medical Privacy Promises: Fact Sheet on the Practical Effects of the Original Rule -- and How Proposed Modifications Will Make It More Effective for Patients and Providers.
AHA Response to the Dececember 2018 HIPAA RFI (December 12, 2019)
AHA/AHIMA Webinar: Engaging Patients Through Access to Their Medical Records (November 15, 2016)
Reducing Hospital-Acquired Clostridium difficile Transmission Rates
U.S. hospitals provided 9.1 billion in uncompensated care in 2009, according to the latest data from the AHA's Annual Survey of Hospitals.
Information obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request cannot provide the basis for the personal knowledge private individuals must have in order to pursue a False Claims Act case, the AHA argues in the amicus brief filed December 6, in the U.S. Supreme Court.