AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and AHA Chair-elect Designate Gene Woods, president and chief operating officer of CHRISTUS Health, this week released a
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Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital, a 2014 AHA Equity of Care Award recipient, is working to ensure that all its patients receive high-quality care, and that the organization reflect
As a “facilitated enrollment service” provider for the state of New York, the 24-member Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council in Hauppauge has been working to help enroll uninsured Long Islan
Commenting today on a substitute amendment to the Helping Families in Men
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today approved by voice vote the Synthetic Drug Control Act (H.R. 3537).
Hospital-acquired conditions declined by 17% (1.3 million) between 2010 and 2013, saving an estimated 50,000 lives and $12 billion in health care costs, according to
Leaders of the Senate Special Committee on Aging today
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in collaboration with the Maryland Hospital Association and AHA’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative, tomorrow will host the fi
The fall issue of AHA’s Great Boards newsletter features articles on best practices for
Click here to view a video message from AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and AHA Chair-elect Designate Gene Woods, p
The AHA expressed disappointment over the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) decision to reduce hospital outpatient payment rates by 0.4% next year in its final rule for the outpatient prospective payment and ambulatory surgical center payment systems (PPS). However, in the final rule issued on Oct. 30, the agency also said it would carry out AHA-supported changes proposed in July for its “two-midnight” policy.
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today held a hearing 
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has recalculated results for the calendar year 2013 Medicare spending per beneficiary measure after identifying an issue with data used in the calcu
The Department of Health and Human Services today announce
A new monograph from the AHA’s Center for Healthcare Govern
The Coalition to Protect America’s Health Care has again installed digital and large-scale print ads at Reagan N
The president Nov. 2 signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Act, P.L. 114-74, passed by Congress last week to raise the nation’s debt limit and set spending targets for the federal budget for the next two fiscal years. Site-neutral payments for new provider-based hospital outpatient departments are included in the legislation – a provision that was strongly opposed by the AHA.
The AHA today voiced support for an Internal Revenue Service supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking, which clarifies that applicable large employers must provide substantial coverage for inpati
A policy statement issued Friday by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspec