A new toolkit from the AHA’s Physician Leadership Forum addresses the appropriate use of elective percutaneous coronary intervention for patients with acute heart disease.
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When it comes to hospital disputes with Medicare’s recovery audit contractors – or RACs – this one is a doozy.
The AHA May 18 expressed concern that certain enforcement mechanisms contemplated for health care providers to further interoperability in the 21st Century Cures legislation are inappropriate and c
The AHA today urged Congress to preserve the ban on physician self-referral to new physician-owned hospitals and restrictions on the growth of existing physician-owned hospitals.
AHA yesterday expressed concern that certain enforcement mechanisms contemplated for health care providers to further interoperability in the 21st Century Cures legislation are inappropriate and co
The AHA is concerned about provisions that were included in draft legislation that would have made significant changes to the 340B Drug Pricing Program, AHA Executive Vice President Rick Pollack sa
The AHA today joined four other hospital associations and four hospital organizations in challenging as unlawful a 0.2% reduction in Medicare payment rates to hospitals for inpatient services furni
About 6% of adolescents smoked cigarettes in 2012-2013, down from nearly 13% in 2002-2003, according to a new
Michigan hospitals provided about 223,000 jobs and $2.97 billion in community benefits in 2013, according to
The AHA today urged Congress to preserve the five-year-old ban on physician self-referral to new physician-owned hospitals and restrictions on the growth of existing physician-owned hospitals.
Emergency department visits involving misuse or abuse of the narcotic pain reliever tramadol increased 250% between 2005 and 2011, with the largest increase among adults 55 and older, according to
Adults with chest pain who are admitted to the hospital from the emergency department after two negative troponin tests and non-concerning vital signs, among other indicators, rarely have adverse c
The Food and Drug Administration Friday warned that the type 2 diabetes medicines canagliflozin, dapagliflozin a
Senior health care leaders may apply through June 1 to participate in the next AHA Health Care Transformation Fellowship, a nine-month program designed to give participants knowledge, tools and con
If the Supreme Court rules against the government in King v.
The number of patients treated for mental disorders grew by 14 million between 2002 and 2012, while expenditures for mental disorders grew by $25 billion, according to a new report by the Agency fo
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will transition the Physician Quality Reporting System to its Enterprise Identity Management System on July 13.
The AABB has released a white paper to help organizations overcome common hurdles associated wi
Overall hospital prices increased 0.1% in April and were 0.5% higher than a year ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported yesterday.