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Click here to view a video message from AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and AHA Chair-elect Designate Gene Woods, p

The AHA expressed disappointment over the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) decision to reduce hospital outpatient payment rates by 0.4% next year in its final rule for the outpatient prospective payment and ambulatory surgical center payment systems (PPS). However, in the final rule issued on Oct. 30, the agency also said it would carry out AHA-supported changes proposed in July for its “two-midnight” policy.

The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today held a hearing&nbsp

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has recalculated results for the calendar year 2013 Medicare spending per beneficiary measure after identifying an issue with data used in the calcu

The Department of Health and Human Services today announce

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday

A new monograph from the AHA’s Center for Healthcare Govern

The Coalition to Protect America’s Health Care has again installed digital and large-scale print ads at Reagan N

The president Nov. 2 signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Act, P.L. 114-74, passed by Congress last week to raise the nation’s debt limit and set spending targets for the federal budget for the next two fiscal years. Site-neutral payments for new provider-based hospital outpatient departments are included in the legislation – a provision that was strongly opposed by the AHA.

The AHA today voiced support for an Internal Revenue Service supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking, which clarifies that applicable large employers must provide substantial coverage for inpati

A policy statement issued Friday by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspec

Eligible professionals and group practices participating in the Physician Quality Reporting System who believe they were incorrectly assessed a negative payment adjustment for 2016 may ask CMS to r

The Department of Health and Human Services Friday released an analysis

The AHA's Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development has chosen as its 2016 president-elect Ruth Padilla Portacci, principal of Healthcare Strategy Partners in Nashville, TN.

By Damareus Barbour

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today issued a final rule for

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today finalized a payment incr

The U.S.

The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission yesterday approved recommendations to improve and expand on data collected about the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital payment program.

The National Governors Association this week urged federal officials to give states more flexibility with respect to