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A new report reinforces the need for Kansas to develop a plan to expand Medicaid to uninsured low-income adults under the Affordable Care Act, according to the Kansas Hospital Association. Prepared by Manatt Health Solutions for Kansas Grantmakers in Health, the report estimates that Medicaid鈥
Health care is expected to add more jobs than any other sector through 2024, including at least 394,900 hospital jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projected today. In addition to hospitals, the agency anticipates roughly 760,000 new jobs in home health care, 736,000 in nursing and鈥
The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee today held a hearing to examine solutions to the rising trend in opioid abuse and overdose deaths in the U.S.
The Department of Health and Human Services鈥 Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response encourages hospitals to participate in recently opened discussions on its Information Exchange about updating the Hospital Preparedness Program鈥檚 health care preparedness鈥
In an AHASTAT blog post today, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack responds to a recent Wall Street Journal analysis that questioned the recent reductions in hospital readmissions. 鈥淗ere is what the numbers show,鈥 Pollack writes.
The AHA encourages all hospitals to complete the eighth annual Information Technology Supplement to the AHA Annual Survey, which the association began mailing to CEOs Friday. Recipients should forward the survey to their chief information officer to complete on paper or online by Dec. 28.
Patrick Conway, M.D., Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services deputy administrator for innovation and quality and chief medical officer, will discuss the future of the global budgeting payment model during a Dec. 18 webinar hosted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in鈥
New Jersey鈥檚 63 not-for-profit hospitals provided $2.4 billion in community benefit in 2013, accounting for 13.4% of their total hospital expense, according to a new report from EY (formerly Ernst & Young) commissioned by the New Jersey Hospital Association.
Hospitals subject to a reduction in Medicare outpatient payments in 2016 due to non-compliance with the outpatient quality reporting program may appeal the determination by submitting a reconsideration request by Feb. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Friday.
The addition of a single insurer in a county was associated with a 1.2% lower premium for the average silver plan and a 3.5% lower premium for the benchmark plan in the federally run Health Insurance Marketplaces for 2015, according to a study published today in Health Affairs.