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The AHA today urged the Food and Drug Administration to revise its draft guidance for mixing, diluting or repackaging biological products to permit longer beyond-use-dates if testing or validated studies show increased sterility and stability in a similar environment. 鈥淭he AHA is concerned鈥
New Hampshire hospitals saw 22% fewer emergency visits, 27% fewer admissions and 15% fewer outpatient visits by uninsured patients in the first nine months of the state鈥檚 Medicaid expansion alternative, according to a report released today by the New Hampshire Hospital Association.
A new toolkit from the AHA鈥檚 Physician Leadership Forum addresses the appropriate use of elective percutaneous coronary intervention for patients with acute heart disease. Produced in collaboration with the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and Society for鈥
The Senate Special Committee on Aging today held a hearing to examine 鈥渟olutions to the hospital observation stay crisis.鈥
When it comes to hospital disputes with Medicare鈥檚 recovery audit contractors 鈥 or RACs 鈥 this one is a doozy.Gretchen Case, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center鈥檚 director of compliance and revenue integrity experience in Los Angeles, recounts the case of one patient who underwent鈥
The AHA May 18 expressed concern that certain enforcement mechanisms contemplated for health care providers to further interoperability in the 21st Century Cures legislation are inappropriate and could have significant unintended consequences.
The AHA today urged Congress to preserve the ban on physician self-referral to new physician-owned hospitals and restrictions on the growth of existing physician-owned hospitals.
AHA yesterday expressed concern that certain enforcement mechanisms contemplated for health care providers to further interoperability in the 21st Century Cures legislation are inappropriate and could have significant unintended consequences. 鈥淲e appreciate the inclusion of provisions to further鈥
The AHA is concerned about provisions that were included in draft legislation that would have made significant changes to the 340B Drug Pricing Program, AHA Executive Vice President Rick Pollack said in comments submitted last night to leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
The AHA today joined four other hospital associations and four hospital organizations in challenging as unlawful a 0.2% reduction in Medicare payment rates to hospitals for inpatient services furnished in Federal Fiscal Year 2015. According to the complaint, filed in the District of Columbia鈥