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The Food and Drug Administration Friday issued final guidance on medical device data systems. The guidance confirms the agency鈥檚 intention not to enforce regulations for technologies that receive, transmit, store or display data from medical devices unless they involve active patient鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday published a final list of Essential Community Providers for plan year 2016, available on the CMS website under 鈥淥ther QHP Application Resources.鈥 Health insurers use the annual list to identify providers meeting ECP鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday issued a rule finalizing certain requirements for private Medicare Advantage and Part D prescription drug plans beginning in contract year 2016. The provisions cover a broad range of administrative areas. They were included in the鈥
The AHA seeks hospital and health system trustees to serve on its Committee on Governance, Regional Policy Boards, and other governing councils and committees beginning in 2016. Interested trustees are invited to view the Call for Nominations and submit an application through Feb. 25.
The AHA today urged the Department of Health and Human Services鈥 Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response to distribute the recent Ebola emergency funding as Congress intended. 鈥淐ongress provided ASPR $576 million to bolster the infrastructure for the nation鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has asked the Measure Applications Partnership to conduct an accelerated review of an ad hoc list of measures the agency is considering for Medicare quality reporting programs under the Improving Medicare Post鈥怉cute Care Transformation Act of鈥
AHA today encouraged the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to refine its draft strategic plan for health information technology to clarify and prioritize federal roles and activities. 鈥淐learly, the broad goals outlined in the strategic plan are important for鈥
Medicare will cover annual lung-cancer screening with Low Dose Computed Tomography for Medicare beneficiaries who meet certain criteria, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced yesterday.
Employment at the nation's hospitals increased by 0.2% in January to a seasonally adjusted 4,824,000 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. That's 9,600 more people than in December and 56,200 more than a year ago. Without the seasonal adjustment, which removes the effect of鈥
A Tennessee legislative committee yesterday rejected an alternative to Medicaid expansion proposed by Gov. Bill Haslam. The Insure Tennessee proposal, supported by the Tennessee Hospital Association, would provide health coverage to more than 200,000 uninsured adults earning less than 138% of the鈥