Advisory
AHA Advisories provide urgent information for AHA members and the health care field, and actions they may need to take.
The HHS recently released an interim final rule updating the enforcement rule for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 \(HIPAA\). These updates were necessitated by the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act \(HITECH\).
On September 14, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released the end-stage renal disease \(ESRD\) prospective payment system \(PPS\) proposed rule
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published in the August 6 Federal Register the calendar year \(CY\) 2010 proposed rule for the home health \(HH\) prospective payment system \(PPS\). This rule updates the HH payment rates, including the 60-day episode rates, per-visit rates…
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The Department of Health and Human Services \(HHS\) published in the August 24 Federal Register its interim final rule implementing the Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health \(HITECH\) Act's breach notification requirements.
On August 11, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published in the Federal Register its skilled nursing facility \(SNF\) prospective payment system \(PPS\) final rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2010.
In the August 27 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published its final rule for the hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\) which includes long-term care hospital \(LTCH\) PPS provisions.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published in the August 7 Federal Register the inpatient rehabilitation facility \(IRF\) prospective payment system \(PPS\) final rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2010.
On July 31, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released its fiscal year 2010 final rule for the hospital inpatient prospective payment system \(PPS\), which made significant improvements over the proposed rule.
In November 1999 the Institute of Medicine \(IOM\) released its landmark report, To Err is Human, which estimated that as many as 98,000 people die each year in hospitals because of preventable medical harm.