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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today released the fifth and final report in a series examining social risk factors that affect the health outcomes of Medicare beneficiaries and how to account for these factors in Medicare value-based payment programs. The final…
More than 11.5 million people selected a 2017 health plan through the Health Insurance Marketplaces as of Dec. 24, an increase of 286,000 compared to the comparable period last year, according to a report released today by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. More than 8.7 million…
The drive to build a continuum of care that rewards value over volume is unlikely to abate because it’s what consumers demand, AHA General Counsel Melinda Reid Hatton writes in an AHA Stat blog post today, responding to a commentary on consolidation published in The JAMA Forum.
Joe McDonald, president and CEO of Catholic Health System in Buffalo, NY, will serve as 2017 council chairman of the AHA's Constituency Section for Health Care Systems. Steven Corwin, M.D., president and CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian in New York, is council chairman-elect and will become chair in…
The AHA agrees with the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission that positive payment updates for the hospital inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems are necessary in fiscal year 2018, the association told the commission in comments submitted Friday.
Hospitals participating in the inpatient and outpatient quality reporting programs can preview their quality data through Feb. 7 at the QualityNet Secure Portal before they are reported in April on the Hospital Compare website. Prospective payment system-exempt cancer hospitals also can…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and National Library of Medicine Friday published an addendum to the 2016 electronic clinical quality measure specifications. The addendum updates the ICD-10 value sets for electronic reporting of eCQMs for the 2017 performance year in the…
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.21% in December to a seasonally adjusted 5,138,000 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. That's 10,700 more people than in November and 139,500 more than a year ago. Without the seasonal adjustment, which removes the effect of…
The January issue of the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, published by The College of American Pathologists, focuses on pathology and laboratory medicine aspects of the Zika virus global pandemic. The open access articles are available at http://www.archivesofpathology.org.
Margie Beadles, volunteer/auxilian at CoxHealth in Springfield, MO, is 2017 chair of the AHA’s Committee on Volunteers. The specialty committee of the AHA Board of Trustees supports the AHA mission and policy agenda by its activities in public policy development and participates in AHA…