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The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday recommended that Congress increase Medicare base payment rates for hospital inpatient and outpatient services by 1.25% in 2019, as provided under
The flu hospitalization rate rose to 22.7 per 100,000 people in the first week of January from 17.7 the prior week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today approved a
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a Jan.
Joan Coffman, president and CEO of Hospital Sisters Health System St. Mary’s Hospital in Decatur, IL, will lead the AHA's Section for Small or Rural Hospitals in 2018.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued policy guidance for states proposing demonst
Hospitals reduced central line-associated bloodstream infections by 50% between 2008 and 2016, according to a new progress
The Food and Drug Administration today announced four priority areas for additional policy activi
The House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday released a report on
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will host a Public Health Grand Rounds session Jan. 16 at 1 p.m.
Charlotte Ipsan, chief administrative officer of Norton Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Louisville, KY, will serve as 2018 chair of the AHA’s Section for Maternal and Child Health Council.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will accept applications through March 12 for a new voluntary bundled payment model that will qualify as an advanced alternative payment model under
President Trump today issued an executive order directing federal agencies to “use all viable tools to ac
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week
The AHA this week applauded the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s draft recommendation to provide positive updates for the inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems in 2019, noting
Mary Lou Mastro, system CEO for Edward-Elmhurst Health in Naperville, IL, is 2018 council chair of the AHA’s Constituency Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services.
Ed Eckenhoff, founder and former president and CEO of the Washington, DC-based MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH), and a tireless advocate for the disabled, died yesterday after a battl
The American Hospital Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges and America's Essential Hospitals today formally notified the court of their intent to