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Federal Medicaid spending under the Better Care Reconciliation Act would be 35% lower in 2036, according to a new analysis released late this afternoon by the Congressional Budget Office.
The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday issued an update on the new and evolving cyberattack using a variant of ransomware, which has hit businesses worldwide with particular impacts in transportation and health care. According to press reports, Nuance Communications, a provider of鈥
The House of Representatives yesterday voted 218-210 to approve medical liability reform legislation (H.R. 1215) that would limit non-economic damages to $250,000 in lawsuits where health coverage was provided or subsidized by the federal government. 鈥淒efensive medicine costs the health care鈥
An estimated 65% of women and 63% of men reported walking for transportation or leisure in 2015, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That鈥檚 up from 57% and 54%, respectively, in 2005. Walking, which like other physical activity can reduce鈥
A new and evolving cyberattack using a variant of ransomware has hit some hospitals and a pharmaceutical company in the United States, as well as businesses in Ukraine, India, France, Russia and Spain, the Department of Health and Human Services reports. HHS advises organizations to be vigilant and鈥
The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC), whose members include the AHA, today launched a national campaign to transform advanced illness care through policy change, state and community organizing, and support for family caregivers.
Becker鈥檚 Healthcare recently named AHA Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt, D.O., one of 60 health care leaders under age 40 who are 鈥渞ising stars鈥 in the field.
As the Senate deliberates legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack today warned that 鈥渉istory will remember how the Senate votes and whether it votes to protect coverage or leave the most vulnerable behind.鈥 Pollack was joined by Sr.鈥
At an event today in Denver, patients and health care providers highlighted concerns with health reform proposals being discussed in Congress, including the recently released U.S. Senate proposal. Speakers included a cancer survivor, diabetes patient, mother of premature twins, two physicians and鈥
Many health reform policies under consideration in the House and Senate are largely unpopular among voters, according to a poll conducted in seven states for the American Medical Association. No more than 26% of voters in any of the states supported the House-passed American Health Care Act, the鈥