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The Food and Drug Administration has issued a Drug Safety Communication warning health care providers, parents and caregivers of children under the age of three that the repeated or prolonged use of general anesthetic and sedation drugs may adversely impact their developing brains. The agency鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services does not plan to finalize a proposed rule to test new models for how Medicare Part B pays for prescription drugs provided in physician offices and hospital outpatient departments. 鈥淎fter considering comments, CMS will not finalize the鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late this afternoon issued a final rule on the notice of benefit and payment parameters standards for health insurance issuers and the Health Insurance Marketplaces in 2018.
The AHA and nine other organizations representing physicians, hospitals, medical group practices, academic medical centers and nearly all existing accountable care organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program today submitted joint comments and recommendations for developing a new Medicare鈥
The rate of overdose deaths from synthetic opioids other than methadone increased 72.2% in 2015, likely driven primarily by illicitly manufactured fentanyl, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The overdose death rate from methadone fell by 9.1%. The鈥
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week released a suite of resources, including a mobile app and video series, to help clinicians apply its opioid prescribing guidelines for adults with chronic pain.
Medicare and Medicaid underpaid U.S. hospitals by $57.8 billion in 2015, according to the latest data from the AHA's Annual Survey of Hospitals. Underpayment occurs when the payment received is less than the costs of providing care, that is, the amount paid by hospitals for the personnel,鈥
The deadline for consumers to sign up for Jan. 1 coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplaces has been extended to Dec. 19. According to a notice posted on HealthCare.gov, the extension was driven by 鈥渆xtraordinary demand鈥 to enroll online and over the phone. As of Dec.
California Hospital Association President and CEO Duane Dauner plans to retire at the end of 2018, the association announced yesterday. California hospitals have benefited from Dauner鈥檚 leadership, public policy acumen and advocacy skills for more than three decades, noted Jim Holmes,鈥
The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission today recommended five additional years of federal funding for the State Children鈥檚 Health Insurance Program, calling for action 鈥渁s soon as possible鈥 to preserve health insurance coverage for more than 8 million children and mitigate budget鈥