Hospitals participating in the inpatient and outpatient quality reporting programs can preview their overall hospital quality star rating through Feb.
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The AHA’s 28-member Committee on Governance (COG) helps mobilize trustee involvement in grassroots advocacy and provides input into AHA policies.
The Food and Drug Administration Friday issued draft guidance for medical device manufactu
Only one in five U.S.
The departments of Health and Human Services and Education Friday issued a letter and toolkit su
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Bundled Payment for Care Improvement and Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement initiatives will be important tests of how well Medicare bu
Vindell Washington, M.D., will join the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology as principal deputy national coordinator
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, today received the 2015 Foster G.
Kevin Most, D.O., vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer for Northwestern Medicine at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, IL, will
Olympus has recalled its TJF-Q180V duodenoscope so it can make Food and Drug Administration-approved modifications to the roughly 4,400 devices in use in U.S.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday finalized its recommendations to provide no updates in fiscal year 2017 for Medicare payments to home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities,
The AHA today recommended changes to certain provisions of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ 2017 draft letter to issuers of qualified health plans in federally facilitated ma
The Collaborative for Accountability and Improvement and the National Patient Safety Foundation will sponsor a Feb.
A new white paper from the Center for Healthca
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Jan.
The AHA last week criticized as “misdirected” and a blow to patient care the Medicare Payment Assessment Commission’s (MedPAC) recommendation that Congress reduce Part B drug payment rates to hospi
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission today recommended that Congress update payments for hospital inpatient and outpatient services in 2017 as outlined under current law, which would provide an
The AHA yesterday urged the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to finalize guidance on opioid prescribing for chronic pain as soon as possible.
Hospitals and others can apply through March 14 for grants of up to $500,000 each for equipment and technical assistance to provide telemedicine services in rural areas, the Department of Agricultu
President Obama will propose in his fiscal year 2017 budget that Congress give any state that expands Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act the same three years of full federal support