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The Departments of Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services late Friday issued a final rule updating disclosure requirements for the Summary of Benefits and Coverage issued by group and individual health plans under the Affordable Care Act. Effective 60 days after publication in tomorrow…
The Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response today launched an online resource for health care providers and others working in disaster medicine and health care system and public health emergency preparedness. The Technical…
Overall hospital prices increased 0.1% in May and were 0.7% higher than a year ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Prices for the subgroup of general medical and surgical hospitals increased 0.1%, and were 0.5% higher than in May 2014, according to the BLS Producer Price Indices,…
The U.S. House of Representatives today voted 302-126 to reject a Trade Adjustment Assistance bill that would have provided federal job-training and other assistance to workers, firms, farmers and communities that have been hurt by foreign trade. The bill, as passed by the Senate, also would have…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday announced that it has settled appeals of outstanding Medicare inpatient status claims with more than 1,900 hospitals, representing approximately 300,000 claims, which modestly reduces the significant backlog of Medicare appeals in the…
The House late yesterday approved legislation, H.R. 2685, that included an AHA-backed amendment that would withhold funding for a controversial Labor Department policy aimed at treating hospitals participating in Tricare and certain other health care programs as federal contractors or…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is soliciting nominations for its first Learning Action Network work group, which will focus on defining a set of alternative payment model terms and an approach for tracking progress. The work group will not set or make policy, nor make formal…
The Department of Health and Human Services today announced it has selected nine health departments and partner hospitals to serve as regional treatment centers for patients with Ebola or other highly infectious diseases. Each center will receive approximately $3.25 million during the five-year…
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response said today it has awarded a $1.8 million contract to OraSure Technologies Inc., in Bethlehem, PA, to develop an Ebola virus diagnostic test for use in a doctor’s office,…
Growing use of synthetic marijuana cannabinoids is to blame for a 229% increase in suspected poisonings earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported today. Between January and May 2015, U.S. poison centers in 48 states reported receiving 3,572 calls related to…