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Hospital representatives are invited to learn more about recent policy and legal activities impacting the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor program and review results from the AHA's latest RACTrac survey during a webinar on March 22 at 2 p.m. ET.
The American Organization of Nurse Executives on March 31 will present its 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award to Kathleen Sanford, senior vice president and chief nursing officer at Catholic Health Initiatives, during the AONE annual meeting in Fort Worth, TX.
The Class of 2018 profiles the women and men who joined the AHA board this year.Patients want reliable, understandable information about the cost and quality of their care, says AHA board member David Entwistle, CEO of the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics (UUHC) in Salt Lake City.Openly…
Peter Boling, M.D., learned 32 years ago that the doctor’s office or hospital isn’t always the best place to treat elderly patients – not when they suffer from chronic illnesses or infirmities that make it a struggle getting out.In 1984, Boling started doing house calls as part of…
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today approved the Mental Health Reform Act (S. 2680). Among other provisions, the bill would establish a chief medical officer at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to promote the use of evidence-based…
Bigger is not better when it comes to the proposed mergers of health insurers Aetna and Humana and Anthem and Cigna, a panel of consumer and advocacy representatives said today, citing the potential for higher prices, lower quality and diminished service for consumers.
The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission yesterday released its March report to Congress on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The report focuses on Medicaid and CHIP support for safety net hospitals, delivery of care for people with behavioral health…
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday released its March report to Congress.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today finalized its guidance for primary care physicians prescribing opioids to adults for chronic pain in outpatient settings.
House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) today unveiled the committee’s budget plan for fiscal year 2017, which would reduce Medicare spending by $449 billion and Medicaid and other health care spending by $1.03 trillion over 10 years. Overall, the plan would achieve about $7…