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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has updated its Medicare claims processing manual to include guidance on implementing the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice, a standard notice that all hospitals and critical access hospitals must provide effective March 8 to all Medicare鈥
AHA's Hospitals & Health Networks magazine last week launched its 2017 Most Wired Survey, which hospitals can complete through March 15. The annual survey measures information technology adoption, implementation and use in four areas: infrastructure; business and administrative management;鈥
Kansas hospitals directly employ 84,421 people and support more than 74,000 additional jobs in other sectors, according to a new report from the Kansas Hospital Association. This employment generates nearly $9 billion in income, more than $3 billion in retail sales and more than $200 million鈥
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Jan. 23 prohibited two of the nation鈥檚 largest health insurers from merging, concluding that the proposed merger of Aetna and Humana was likely to substantially lessen competition for individual Medicare Advantage plans in all 364鈥
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia today prohibited two of the nation鈥檚 largest health insurers from merging, concluding that the proposed merger of Aetna and Humana was likely to substantially lessen competition for individual Medicare Advantage plans in all 364 counties鈥
President Trump late Friday issued an executive order designed to 鈥渆ase the burden鈥 of the Affordable Care Act, according to Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a Feb. 9 webinar on its new payment model to bundle payment to acute care hospitals for heart attack and cardiac bypass surgery services beginning in July 2017.
Manufacturer rebates and other price concessions reported by Medicare Part D prescription drug plans after the point-of-sale grew about 22% annually between 2010 and 2015, contributing to higher beneficiary cost-sharing and Medicare subsidy payments, according to a report released last week by鈥
The AHA invites applications through Jan. 27 for the 2017 Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership. Named after AHA President Emeritus Dick Davidson, the annual award honors a state, regional or metropolitan hospital association that demonstrates exceptional鈥
More than 359,000 clinicians have agreed to participate in four alternative payment models in 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced yesterday.