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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host two webinars this month on its request for information to inform implementation of changes to Medicare payment for physicians and eligible professionals under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. Section 101 of the…
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.32% in September to a seasonally adjusted 4,939,400 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. That's 15,500 more people than in August and 145,900 more than a year ago. Without the seasonal adjustment, which removes the effect of…
Dame tu Mano (Give me your hand) is Elkhart (Ind.) General Hospital’s effort to coordinate health outreach to the county’s Latino residents.Latinos – mostly of Mexican descent – account for nearly 30,000 of Elkhart County’s 200,000 residents. They are leading a…
The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee still plans to propose legislation this year to advance the interoperability of electronic health records, one of many reasons the administration should wait to finalize Stage 3 meaningful use requirements under the Medicare and Medicaid…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued a correction notice to the fiscal year 2016 inpatient and long-term care hospital prospective payment system final rule, which was published Aug. 17.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently clarified certain meaningful use objectives and measures in the Medicare & Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentives Programs. The clarifications pertain to the summary of care objective, immunizations measure, and numerator…
The AHA encourages all hospitals to submit data to the quarterly RACTrac survey, available today through Oct. 16. The free web-based survey helps AHA gauge the impact of Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor program on hospitals and advocate for needed changes. For more information on the RACTrac…
A new guide from the AHA’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative examines steps hospitals can take to increase supplier diversity. “As hospitals accelerate their improvement efforts in core areas that increase staff and leadership diversity and cultural competence, issues…
The House Judiciary Committee today voted 18-10 to approve the Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules (SMARTER) Act, AHA-supported legislation that would standardize the merger review process so that the Federal Trade Commission would be required to rely exclusively on the…
The Senate voted 78-20 today to pass a continuing resolution funding most federal programs at their current levels through Dec. 11. The House is expected to approve the measure later today, which would avert a government shutdown when the current funding bill expires at midnight. President Obama is…