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President Trump today nominated to serve as the next Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, former president of Lilly USA and deputy HHS secretary under the George W. Bush administration. 鈥淲e welcome the nomination of Alex Azar to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services鈥
Baxter Healthcare Corp. will temporarily import from the United Kingdom certain amino acid drugs in short supply in the United States, beginning with limited quantities in the next few weeks, the Food and Drug Administration announced last week.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has named an ombudsman to serve as a resource for health care providers concerning the new Medicare beneficiary enrollment cards. 鈥淒r. Eugene Freund will be serving in this position,鈥 the agency said in a notice last week.
Senate Finance Committee Chair Orin Hatch (R-UT) late yesterday released a draft of Senate Republicans鈥 proposal to overhaul the tax code.
National spending for hospital care grew just 1.9% over the 12 months that ended in September, the lowest rate since September 2011, according to the latest report from Altarum Institute's Center for Sustainable Health Spending. The report also notes a low rate of hospital employment growth for鈥
The AHA today released a guide to help hospital and health system board members and leaders implement a strategy to address the unique health care access and delivery challenges faced by geographically isolated, low-population communities. The emerging strategy is one of nine identified by an AHA鈥
Join AHA policy experts for a Nov. 17 webinar on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services final rule updating Quality Payment Program requirements for physicians and other eligible clinicians under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act. Released Nov. 2, the rule specifies what鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended to Jan. 2, 2018 the deadline for hospitals to amend their Medicare Cost Report Worksheet S-10s from fiscal years 2014 and 2015. The new data will not be used to calculate Medicare disproportionate share payments for FY 2018, but will be鈥
It can be daunting for patients suffering from an opioid use disorder (OUD) to figure out how to get into treatment and find the resources that can help set them on the road to recovery.That鈥檚 why Melrose-Wakefield Hospital and Lawrence Memorial Hospital 鈥 part of Medford, Mass.-based Hallmark鈥
The House Ways and Means Committee today voted 24 to 16 along party lines to approve the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act (H.R. 1), legislation to reform the tax code. Among other changes, the bill would eliminate hospitals鈥 ability to access low-cost capital financing through tax-exempt private-activity鈥