The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission today discussed policy options to preserve access to emergency care in rural areas in the wake of recent rural hospital closures.
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Health care spending continued to moderate in August at 5.6% growth year-over-year, according to the latest
The AHA and Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology will host a Twitter chat Oct.
The AHA encourages all hospitals to submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey by Oct. 16.
A bipartisan group of 95 House lawmakers yesterday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to scuttle its proposed payment cut for hospital outpatient services and provide a positive
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released calendar year 2013
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
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