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Hospitals can review their scores for the fiscal year 2020 Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program at the QualityNet secure portal.
Employment at the nation's hospitals fell by 0.04% in July to a seasonally adjusted 5,238,900 people.
In a commentary published in Academic Medicine, experts outline how academic medicine, medical education, public health agencies, hospital associations and health systems can help small community and critical access hospitals overcome resource and other challenges to implement successful antibiotic…
One year after the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared an outbreak of Ebola, the outbreak continues in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, with 2,698 cases and 1,813 deaths to date.
Leaders urged Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao to promptly appoint and convene an advisory committee to advise Congress and the departments of HHS and Transportation on protecting consumers from balance billing for air ambulance transports.
The AHA and Center to Advance Palliative Care today launched a Palliative Care Support Hub, which offers hospitals and health systems a framework for assessing, measuring and expanding palliative care services.
The Senate today voted 67-28 to pass and send to the president a two-year budget agreement (H.R. 3877) that increases discretionary funding limits and suspends the debt limit for two years, through July 31, 2021. Without congressional action, statutory caps on discretionary funding would have…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today issued a final rule for the inpatient rehabilitation facility prospective payment system for fiscal year 2020.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late today issued a final rule to update the payment rates for hospices by 2.6% for fiscal year 2020.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar today released a plan outlining two pathways the administration intends to explore to safely import certain drugs originally intended for foreign markets.