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AHA’s Center for Healthcare Governance has released a free webinar ex
The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services not to implement a new market basket specific to inpatient rehabilitation facilities until the agency can ensure it accurately r
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has posted updated Ebola guidance for U.S.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended to June 30 the applica
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will fund three Centers of Excellence to study how high-performing health care systems promote evidence-based practices in delivering care.
The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management (Institute) can more closely coordinate the many – but sometimes isolated – efforts underway to eliminate health care disparities and ac
The AHA yesterday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to articulate how it intends to coordinate implementation of the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting and Value-Based
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS and Education today approved legislation that would provide $153 billion in discretionary funding for the departments of Labor, Health and Human
The National Patient Safety Foundation yesterday issued guidelines to help health care organizations improve root cause analysis to
Effective today, travelers from Liberia to the United States no longer need to be actively monitored by or in daily contact with their health departments, the Centers for Disease Control and Preven
Many seniors injured in motor vehicle crashes remain in pain for months afterwards, negatively affecting their quality of life and ability to live independently, according to a
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law today held a
Hospital leaders today briefed congressional staff on the important role that Medicare’s support for graduate medical education plays in helping teaching hospitals train the next generation o
The AHA today participated in a bipartisan Capitol Hill briefing hosted by the Senate Rural Caucus, chaired by Sens.
The AHA supports a number of provisions in the inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year 2016, but is concerned about the rule’s cuts to disproportionate share hospit
The Health Resources and Services Administration today released a proposed rule on d
The National Committee on Vital Health Statistics should investigate barriers to greater use of adopted Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act transaction standards and identify soluti
The House Appropriations Committee today released draft legislation
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will conduct in July a “dry run” of a new outpatient colonoscopy measure for the hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgical center qual