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The Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network, a forum initiated by Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell in March to advance health care payment models that promote quality and value, invites hospitals and others to share their alternative payment model experiences by…
The AHA today announced several promotions in its Washington, DC office. Tom Nickels will manage AHA federal relations and public policy analysis and development as executive vice president of Government Relations and Public Policy, succeeding Rick Pollack who became AHA president and CEO Sept…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is accepting comments through Sept. 14 on its proposed star rating system for overall hospital-level quality. CMS recently added star ratings for patient experience survey measures to Hospital Compare, and plans to add overall star ratings…
Recently announced health insurance company acquisitions should be closely scrutinized, because they “would leave consumers with fewer – and no doubt – more expensive options for coverage … and diminish the insurers’ willingness to be innovative partners with…
As the Sept. 30 deadline for reporting meaningful use of electronic health records for fiscal year 2015 approaches, the Department of Health and Human Services has sent to the Office of Management and Budget for review a final rule changing the 2015 reporting period to a 90-day period aligned with…
The House of Representatives last night approved by voice vote the AHA-supported Protecting Our Infants Act (H.R. 1462). The bipartisan legislation, authored by Rep.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights yesterday published a proposed rule clarifying the standards the agency applies in implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, age or…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week announced the Medicare Advantage Valued-Based Insurance Design Model, which will test whether encouraging plan enrollees with certain conditions to consume high-value clinical services through reduced cost sharing and other approaches…
A new AHA infographic highlights how hospitals are working together and with physicians and other community partners to provide patients with convenient, high- quality and affordable care. “Even in the midst of such profound transformation, the growth in hospital prices is a historically…
The AHA’s Workforce Center yesterday participated in a Department of Labor summit for leaders in the ApprenticeshipUSA initiative, which aims to double the number of registered apprenticeships over the next five years.