Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase & Co. will create an independent company “free from profit-making incentives and constraints” to address health care for their U.S. employees, the organizations announced today.
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Baxter Healthcare Corp. Friday updated U.S. hospital customers on its efforts to address a critical shortage of intravenous solutions since Hurricane Maria impacted its manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico.
The agency today extended for another six months its moratoria on enrollment of new Medicare home health agencies and and on new Part B non-emergency ground ambulance suppliers in certain states.
Critical access hospitals that did not achieve meaningful use in the Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program for the 2016 reporting period or receive a hardship exception will see their Medicare payments reduced to 100% of their reasonable costs in fiscal year 2018.
The American Board of Medical Specialties is accepting applications until May 1 for its Visiting Scholars Program.
The flu hospitalization rate rose last week to 41.9 per 100,000 people, similar to the rate during the 2014-2015 season, when the same flu strain predominated.
Cheryl Hoying, senior vice president of patient services at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, will chair the AHA’s Committee for Clinical Leadership for 2018.
Named after AHA President Emeritus Dick Davidson, the annual award honors a state, regional or metropolitan hospital association that demonstrates exceptional organizational leadership and innovation in quality improvement.
The AHA yesterday shared with the Department of Health and Human Services its recommendations for promoting competition and choice in the health care system.
Birth defects associated with Zika virus infection during pregnancy increased 21% in the last half of 2016 in Puerto Rico and portions of Florida and Texas where local Zika virus transmission have been reported.