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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will host a telebriefing on Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, on Thursday, June 11 at 2 p.m. ET.
House leaders today proposed removing additional sequestration cuts on Medicare in 2024 to pay for the cost of extending the Trade Assistance Adjustment program. The proposal, which is contained in the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015, would replace the Medicare sequester extension approved鈥�
The nation needs to make 鈥渞apid progress to develop secure systems for interoperability, not only to improve care and engage patients, but to support new models of care,鈥� AHA today told members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
The Minnesota Hospital Association will receive the 2015 Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership for its work to improve health care quality, AHA announced today. The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania was selected as an honorable mention for the鈥�
鈥淗ospitals are at a crossroads as we move to the future,鈥� says AHA Executive Vice President Rick Pollack in this brief AHA News podcast. 鈥淓verybody is trying to determine what the best pathway is to that future, and there are multiple pathways.鈥漃ollack will become the AHA鈥�
Rural hospital leaders today made their case for regulatory relief from federal policies 鈥� like the 96-hour physician certification requirement, direct physician supervision of outpatient therapeutic services and interoperability standards for health information technology 鈥� at a briefing on鈥�
The AHA today responded to a report that is the 鈥渓atest in a series of attempts to misrepresent鈥� the 340B Drug Pricing Program and the benefits it helps bring to poor patients and vulnerable communities.
President Barack Obama today addressed members of the Catholic Health Association of the United States as it marked its 100th anniversary, thanking them for their efforts to help Americans access care and coverage. Speaking at the 2015 Catholic Health Assembly in Washington, D.C., he traced the 100鈥�
The rise in health care costs is expected to slow in 2016 to 6.5%, but growth will continue to outpace overall inflation, according to a new report from PwC鈥檚 Health Research Institute.
Rural hospital leaders made their case for regulatory relief from federal policies 鈥� like the 96-hour physician certification requirement, direct physician supervision of outpatient therapeutic services and meaningful use standards for health information technology 鈥� at a June 9 briefing on Capitol鈥�