The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a video reviewing ICD-10-CM coding basic
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Hospitals this week joined in celebrating National Influenza Vaccination Week, created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention t
The recent wave of increases in the cost of prescription drugs is straining hospital budgets and squeezing patients, hospital and other health care witnesses Dec.
The House of Representatives last night passed by unanimous consent AHA-supported legislation (S.
The AHA, Catholic Health Association of the United States and Association of American Medical Colleges today urged the Internal Revenue Service to publicly confirm that hospitals may report expendi
The recent wave of increases in the cost of prescription drugs is straining hospital budgets and squeezing patients, hospital and other health care witnesses today told the Senate Aging Committee a
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today held a hearing&
More than 2.8 million people have selected a health plan through the federally-facilitated Health Insurance Marketplace since the start of open enrollment Nov.
A new report reinforces the need for Kansas to develop a plan to expand Medic
Health care is expected to add more jobs than any other sector through 2024, including at least 394,900 hospital jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee today held a
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response encourages hospitals to participate in recently opened discussions on its
In an AHASTAT blog post today, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack responds to a recent Wall Street Journal
The AHA encourages all hospitals to complete the eighth annual Information Technology Supplement to the AHA Annual Survey, which the association began mailing to CEOs Friday.
Patrick Conway, M.D., Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services deputy administrator for innovation and quality and chief medical officer, will discuss the future of the global budgeting payment
New Jersey’s 63 not-for-profit hospitals provided $2.4 billion in community benefit in 2013, accounting for 13.4% of their total hospital expense, according to a new
Hospitals subject to a reduction in Medicare outpatient payments in 2016 due to non-compliance with the outpatient quality reporting program may appeal the determination by submitting a
The addition of a single insurer in a county was associated with a 1.2% lower premium for the average silver plan and a 3.5% lower premium for the benchmark plan in the federally run Health Insuran
The Food and Drug Administration, National Health Information Sharing Analysis Center, Department of Health and Human Services, and Department of Homeland Security will hold a public workshop Jan.
The Government Accountability Office today issued comprehensive results from a survey of state methods for financing Medicaid payments from 2008 to 2012, a