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Proposals to reduce Medicare payment rates for hospital outpatient departments by aligning them with payment rates for independent physician offices and ambulatory surgery centers are based on the false assumption that Medicare overpays hospitals for outpatient services, when in fact hospitals…
The National Cancer Institute will provide $50 million in funding over five years to five centers that will research and implement structural changes to prevent cancer and improve outcomes for people in persistent poverty areas.
The Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management annual conference August 6-9 in Orlando offers supply chain leaders a chance to collaborate, learn best practices and find solutions that benefit hospitals
In 2022, the AHA launched the Black Women CEO Roundtable to create a support system and facilitate meaningful connections. Roundtable member Asha Rodriguez, vice president, facility executive with Atrium Health Cabarrus, reflects on how the roundtable’s support, encouragement and honest dialogue…
The Food and Drug Administration June 22 approved the first gene therapy to treat patients aged 4-5 with a confirmed mutation in the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene.
Medicare will cover new Alzheimer’s drugs that receive traditional approval from the Food and Drug Administration when a beneficiary is diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease dementia and has a physician participating in a registry with an appropriate clinical team and…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services will host a June 27 webinar on its Review Choice Demonstration for Inpatient Rehabilitation Services, which will begin Aug. 21 in Alabama and expand to additional states at an undetermined date.
Delivery-related maternal mortality in U.S. hospitals decreased for all racial and ethnic groups, age groups and modes of delivery during 2008 to 2021, likely due to national strategies to improve delivery-related hospital care, the Department of Health and Human Services reported.
A bipartisan group of 233 representatives and 61 senators called on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service to enhance its proposal to streamline prior authorization processes in Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and the federally-facilitated Marketplace to require real-time electronic decision-…
In a letter submitted to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations for a hearing on challenges implementing value-based and alternative payment models under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, AHA encouraged certain statutory and regulatory…