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Maureen Banks will lead the AHA鈥檚 Constituency Section for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation as 2015 chair of its governing council. Banks is president of Spaulding Hospital Cambridge, Spaulding Hospital Cape Cod, Spaulding Hospital North Shore, Spaulding Skilled Nursing Facilities, and chief鈥
The Department of Health and Human Services aims to tie 30% of Medicare fee-for-service payments to alternative payment models and 85% to quality or value by 2016, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced today. The plan calls for increasing these proportions to 50% and 90%, respectively, by鈥
The AHA today called a House discussion draft of legislation to improve Medicare鈥檚 coverage and payment for telehealth services 鈥渁 step in the right direction,鈥 and applauded the members of a House Energy & Commerce Committee working group on telehealth for taking on the issue.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration should not proceed with a potential rule for occupational exposure to infectious diseases in health care and other related work settings unless it has risk data to justify a new regulation, according to a final report submitted by an advisory鈥
A new toolkit developed by AHA鈥檚 Health Research & Educational Trust affiliate for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality provides practical, science-based resources to help dialysis centers prevent infections in people with end-stage renal disease. The free toolkit includes educational鈥
AHA News has launched news.aha.org, a new and improved website with the most important news that hospital and health system leaders need to know. The website includes breaking news on the latest legislative and regulatory developments impacting hospitals; features highlighting the many ways鈥
Maribeth McLaughlin R.N., chief nursing officer and vice president of patient care services at Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC in Pittsburgh, will lead the AHA's Constituency Section for Maternal and Child Health as 2015 chair of its governing council. Jim Shmerling, president and CEO of Children鈥
The U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut must review whether Medicare beneficiaries challenging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 use of observation status have a property interest under the federal Due Process Clause in being admitted to their hospitals as鈥
States last March reported enrolling more than 3.2 million newly eligible adults in Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act鈥檚 new adult eligibility group, according to data released today by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
A study released yesterday by the Urban Institute looks at who would lose health insurance if the Supreme Court decides for the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell, who seek to limit subsidies under the Affordable Care Act to states that set up their own health insurance marketplaces.