Connecting the uninsured with coverage is only a first step to improving health; the newly insured also need to be connected quickly to culturally competent primary care, Ramanathan Raju, M.D., pre
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A bipartisan group of 95 House lawmakers earlier this week urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to scuttle its proposed payment cut for hospital outpatient services and prov
The AHA today urged Congress to pass the Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today released a final “
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General yesterday issued as part of National Health IT Week a
The Comprehensive Primary Care initiative generated $24 million in gross savings in 2014, the first shared savings performance year of the program, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) today urged Congress to move forward on mental health reform.
Charity care alone cannot measure a hospital’s value to its community, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack said today at a Brookings Institution roundtable on health care economics after imple
The AHA Oct. 7 urged Congress to pass the Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules (SMARTER) Act, S.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today released a final rule with commen
Legislation to create a Medicare value-based purchasing program for post-acute care “is too narrowly focused on cutting provider payment rather than promoting ‘value’,” AHA said in a letter today t
The Senate Health, Labor, Education & Pensions Committee today held a
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host on Oct.
More than 1,000 health care facilities have joined the American Society for Healthcare Engineering’s Energy to Care program, ASHE
The American Organization of Nurse Executives has chosen as its next president-elect Joan Clark, senior vice president and system chief nurse executive at Texas Health Resources in Arlington.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration Friday updated a recent advisory urging
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today awarded $11 million to create six new c