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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended to Sept. 14 the deadline for comments on its proposed star rating system for overall hospital-level quality. The original deadline was today. CMS recently added star ratings for consumer assessment survey measures to Hospital Compare,…
The AHA recently posted a checklist reviewing key steps hospital leaders should take to ensure a successful transition to ICD-10.
The Ohio Hospital Association, the nation’s first state-level hospital association, Friday commemorated its 100th anniversary by dedicating a historical marker at the site of its founding meeting in Sandusky. “OHA has been the united voice of Ohio’s hospitals for a century,…
AHA Executive Vice President Rick Pollack on Aug. 14 helped the Ohio Hospital Association (OHA) celebrate its 100th anniversary.
A total of 360 organizations have entered agreements with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to assume financial risk for an episode of care during the second phase of the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative, the agency announced yesterday.
There was no significant change in coverage rates for employer-sponsored health insurance for large, medium or small firms in 2014, according to a new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Premiums for employer-sponsored insurance rose an average 4.7% for single coverage and 3…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a series of one-hour webinars in September on plans to publicly report certain 2014 Physician Quality Reporting System measures on the Physician Compare website and the 30-day preview period. The Sept. 22, 23 and 24 sessions will present…
Overall hospital prices increased 0.2% in July and were 0.9% higher than a year ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Prices for the subgroup of general medical and surgical hospitals increased 0.2%, and were 0.7% higher than in July 2014, according to the BLS Producer Price Indices,…
Only one in four hospitals could electronically find, send, receive and use patient care information from sources outside their health system in 2014, according to survey results released today by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
About 944,000 Americans used a special enrollment period to select a 2015 health plan at HealthCare.gov between Feb. 23 and June 30, according to a report released today by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.