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The Food and Drug Administration recently warned health care facilities of potential safety risks associated with battery-powered mobile medical carts, including reports of explosion, fires, smoking or overheating of equipment that required hospital evacuations associated with the batteries in the…
The Food and Drug Administration should see how much it can leverage existing safety efforts to gather evidence and information about medical device safety, rather than relying on a separate and potentially duplicative event reporting structure, AHA told the agency today, responding to a public…
Federal payments for Part D catastrophic coverage exceeded $33 billion in 2015, more than triple the amount paid in 2010, according to a new report by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General. Drugs with an average price of more than $1,000 per month…
A partial repeal of the Affordable Care Act could increase the number of uninsured Americans by 29.8 million over 10 years, according to a new report from the Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The resulting increase in uncompensated care could total $1.1 trillion between 2019…
Repealing the Affordable Care Act’s federal premium tax credits and Medicaid expansion to low-income adults in 2019 would result in a $140 billion cut in federal funding for health care and 2.9 million job losses that year, according to a report from the Milken Institute School of Public…
The share of Americans with pre-existing conditions who went without health insurance all year fell by 3.6 million people between 2010 and 2014, according to a report released yesterday by the Department of Health and Human Services. The report estimates that 133 million Americans under age 65…
Patricia DePompei, R.N., president of University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital and MacDonald Women’s Hospital in Cleveland, will serve as 2017 council chair of the AHA’s Section for Maternal and Child Health. Charlotte Ipsan, chief administrative officer for…
A federal judge yesterday rejected a request by the Department of Health and Human Services that he reconsider requiring the agency to eliminate within four years the Medicare claims appeals backlog pending at the administrative law judge level. A Motion to Reconsider “is not a vehicle…
More than 8.7 million people selected a health plan through HealthCare.gov Nov. 1 through Dec. 31, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced yesterday.
The AHA today released its 2017-2020 Strategic Plan, which provides an overview of the association’s strategic direction over the next four years based on input from members and the environmental forces impacting the field. Strategic priorities include: advocating for access and coverage;…