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At its annual meeting this week in Fort Worth, TX, the American Organization of Nurse Executives will present its inaugural Pamela Austin Thompson Early Careerist Award to Erik Martin, director of the pediatric intensive care unit at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
The AHA and AMGA are offering a new fellowship to help member hospitals and health systems with employed physicians move to a more integrated system of care to manage population health and succeed in new physician payment models coming in 2019 under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization…
Twenty-six members of the House Ways and Means Committee today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to delay implementing a new Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule, which was required by the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014. “Given that CMS has yet to issue a final…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a final rule applying certain provisions of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 to Medicaid managed care organizations, Medicaid alternative benefit plans and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The MHPAEA…
The Department of Health and Human Services today issued a proposed rule that would double the number of patients a qualified physician may treat with buprenorphine. The controlled substance is one of three drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration for medication-assisted treatment of…
States, territories and certain other jurisdictions can apply for up to $1 million per year for five years to train first responders and other community sectors to use naloxone and other strategies to prevent prescription drug/opioid-related deaths in adults, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health…
Dick Davidson, the AHA’s president emeritus, died March 28 at age 79. Davidson retired on Jan. 1, 2007, after serving 16 years in the AHA’s top leadership role, and was the second longest-serving president in the association’s 118-year history.“Dick was an innovative and…
During a March 22 hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., hit upon a barrier to appropriate care for patients with substance use disorders: a section of the Social Security Act restricting most in-patient mental health treatment…
In a letter submitted March 28, the AHA continued to urge the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to modify the shared savings determination in the Medicare Shared Savings Program so that more accountable care organizations (ACO) can share in more of the savings they generate.
In a letter submitted today, the AHA continued to urge the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to modify the shared savings determination in the Medicare Shared Savings Program so that more accountable care organizations can share in more of the savings they generate.