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Racial disparities in heart attack mortality rates may be explained by differences in sociodemographic characteristics, and not race alone, according to a new study.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced that it plans to grant quality reporting data submission and validation exceptions to post-acute care providers affected by Hurricane Michael.
A federal court today denied the Department of Health and Human Services鈥 motion for a stay in a lawsuit challenging the excessive delay in the effective date for the 340B price transparency rule.
Sister Carol Keehan this week announced that she will retire as president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association of the United States.
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.25 percent in October to a seasonally adjusted 5,216,100 people.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued its calendar year 2019 outpatient prospective payment and ambulatory surgical center final rule, which updates hospital OPPS rates by 1.35 percent in CY 2019 compared to CY 2018.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued its final rule to update the Physician Fee Schedule for calendar year 2019.
A federal court today ruled in favor of the AHA and its member hospital plaintiffs, and reinstated a mandamus order establishing annual deadline-based targets for reducing the backlog of Medicare appeals at the Administrative Law Judge level.
The AHA鈥檚 American Organization of Nurse Executives yesterday thanked a New England nurse leadership group for 鈥渁dvocating unrelentingly for patients, nurses and our health system鈥 to defeat Question 1 on the Massachusetts ballot initiative.
The Institute for Medicaid Innovation today released a new report that provides an overview of maternal behavioral health; risk factors, outcomes, and implications of maternal behavioral health disorders; barriers to obtaining behavioral health services; and opportunities for community鈥