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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Jan. 30 released new Medicaid guidance to states that would enable them to apply for 1115 waiver authority to receive a defined amount of federal funding to cover services for certain healthy adults.
Special Bulletin: AHA Members-only Call on Feb. 3 with CDC Official on Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
The AHA Feb. 3 at noon ET will host a call for member hospitals and health systems featuring Michael Bell, M.D., deputy director of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases.
The U.S. Census Bureau is required to count the nation’s population every 10 years. In February, Census Bureau workers will contact health care facilities to ensure that certain people living in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), and psychiatric hospital or psychiatric units for long-…
HPA spreadsheets for relative weights and payment rates for the hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) comparing 2020 to 2019 rates. There are two spreadsheets, one based on APC-level comparisons and the other on HCPCS-level comparisons.
The AHA has developed a model comment letter for hospitals and health systems to use to submit comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on its proposed regulation related to Medicaid program financing and supplemental payments. Because the proposed rule would severely curtail…
This is a collection of Fact Sheets and Talking Points documents that the AHA has released on Surprise Medical Billing Legislation.
Cardinal Health continues to assess how many surgical gowns and procedure packs are affected by a quality issue at a contract manufacturing facility, but has placed a hold on potentially impacted lots as far back at September 2018 as a precaution, the company said during a Department of Health and…
Cardinal Health has placed a hold on certain lots of its bulk surgical gowns, as well as surgical procedure packs containing the gowns, while it works with the Food and Drug Administration to address a manufacturing quality issue, the company said in a letter today to customers. The company said it…
Making care accessible and affordable for patients is the goal for many hospitals. Explore how hospitals are implementing provider to provider and provider to patient telehealth services to improve access to care, enhance patient engagement and drive better outcomes.
The Value Initiative, in collaboration with others across the AHA, will offer a series of virtual workshops for members to learn about the issues impacting affordability and value.